Steve Jobs: Something is lacking, and there is something unknown

At the age of 17, I read a motto, as if to:" If you treat every day as the last day of your life, you will find that everything is under control one day.." (Laughter) this sentence has had a profound impact on me since I read it. In the past 33 years, I asked myself in the mirror every morning: "If today is the last day of my life, would I still want to do what I should have done today ?" When the answer was rejected for many days, I knew it was time to make a change..
Reminding myself that it is the most important tool for me to make a decision in my life.
Because all things-external expectations, all honors, and fears of embarrassment and failure-will disappear in the face of death, leaving only truly important things. In all the methods I know, reminding myself that we are about to die is the best way to avoid falling into fear and losing this trap. There is no reason not to listen to your call..
I was diagnosed with cancer about a year ago. At Am I had a check and the scan results clearly showed that a tumor had occurred in my pancreas. I didn't even know what the pancreas was. The doctor told me that it is almost certain that it is an incurable disease, and at most three to six months can survive. The doctor suggested that I go home and arrange everything properly. This is a standard term for the doctor to treat the dying patient. This means you have to spend a few months to finish what you want to say to your children in the next 10 years. This means you have to make everything ready, minimize the burden on your family. This means it's time to say goodbye to everyone.
I thought about the diagnostic results all day. I had a slice check that night, and the doctor put an ingoing mirror into my throat, passed through my stomach into the intestines, and put the probe into the pancreas, several cells are extracted from the tumor. My wife was present, and she told me later that when they observed cell tissue under a microscope, they cried, because it was very rare, pancreatic cancer that can be operated. I had an operation and now I have recovered.
This is my closest death, and I hope that in the next few decades, there will be no more similar experience than this one. After passing through this experience with death, death is just an effective judgment tool for me and a pure rational concept, I am more sure to tell you the fact that no one wants to die. Even those who want to go to heaven hope to live in. (Laughter) Death is the end of every one of us, and no one can be an exception. Life is like this, because death is likely to be the best creation of life. It is the media of life change. It sends away the elders and gives way to the new generation. Now you are still new generation, but in the near future you will gradually grow old and be given the stage of life. Sorry, it's so dramatic, but that's what life is.
Your Time is limited, so do not waste time in others' lives. Do not be bound by rules, or you will live in the results of others' thoughts. Do not let the noise from others' opinions overwhelm your inner voice. The most important thing is to have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They may already know what kind of person you actually want to be. Other things are secondary..
When I was a young man, there was a great magazine called the Whole Earth Catalog, which was promoted by our generation. The magazine was founded by a guy named Stuart brandd. He lives in Menlo Park, not far from here. He made the magazine poetic. It was in the end of 1960s that the personal computer and desktop distribution system had not yet appeared, so the publishing tools were only typewriter, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. This magazine is a bit like Google printed on paper, but it was just 35 years ago when Google appeared. It is full of ideal colors, and its content is very useful tools and amazing insights.
Stuart and his team made several global catalogs, And they published the final issue as soon as they were done. It was in the middle of 1970s that I was at your current age. At the bottom of the last issue, there is a photo of the Country Road in the early morning. If you like adventure trips, you will often encounter the path. There is a line below the picture: Things are insufficient, and the intellectual property is unknown (stay hungry. Stay Foolish .)This is their farewell message. Things are insufficient, and the intellectual property is unknown. I always boast of this. Now, when you graduate and start a new life, I will send this sentence to you.
Things are insufficient, and the intellectual property is unknown. (Stay hungry. Stay Foolish)