In light of Steve Jobs' decision to resign as CEO of Apple, no time like the present to contemplate accomplishments and goals. So listen to this great trance song "You Got To Go," featuring Zoe Johnston from Trance Around the World and read Jobs' Stanford University address in 2005 The song says keep your ideals high, choose a direction, gather what you need and when the moment is right for you, you got to go.
Jobs dropped out of college, got one good meal a week at the local Hare Krishna temple, and "dropped in" on a typography class. One example of his advice to "find what you love." Serif and Sans Serif typefaces were ...
Jobs dropped out of college, got one good meal a week at the local Hare Krishna temple, and "dropped in" on a typography class. One example of his advice to "find what you love." Serif and Sans Serif typefaces were ...
"beautiful, historical, artistically subtle
in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
But 10 years later ... we designed it all into the Macintosh ...
and since Windows just copied the Mac,
it's likely that no personal computer would have them.
If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in
on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have
the wonderful typography that they do ...
so you have to trust that the dots
will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something —
your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
This approach has never let me down,
and it has made all the difference in my life.
1 comments:
LOVE this! And timing is indeed a big part of it all. On a rainy afternoon here on Block Island, while I am contemplating big changes, this was exactlywhatI needed. Thanks Dimitra!
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