Steve Jobs, in his speech , ¨You've got to find what you love¨, implies that we have a limited time to live, so don't waste it living in dogma. He supports his claim by telling four stories of his experiences. The first story being about connecting the dots in (his) life. Then in the second story, he speaks about love and loss of his passion. In the third story he brings up death, and how it kept him motivated to do what he loves. In the fourth, and final, story he concludes his speech with a quote that convinces his audience that there are many different ways to go about life. His advice is to find your passion and to live your life doing what you love.
Although some of Jobs's audience may disagree with his speech, he is right , because many people will live life regardless of what life throws their way. Nobody wants to die, yet when we choose to live, are we truly living our lives to the fullest? Jobs’ states he only lives life to fullest, because of the fear of death. In the play “Hamlet’s soliloquy” by William Shakespeare, the main character Hamlet states that life has no value. He backs it up by
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Jobs’ speech also says he almost loses his passion from being fired at thirty. Even though he was humiliated he that didn’t stop him from starting over he says “I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.”“Roger Ebert: The Essential Man” By Chris Jones tries to tell us that we should enjoy what we do because life is shorter than we think. He explains his battle with cancer, his life as a movie critic, and how he would prepare himself to make it through the day watching four movies in a day. Ebert was a really brave man because although he knew he had cancer, he continued doing what he loved and stayed by his
An author once said” Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your
Rhetorical Analysis of Drew Houston’s 2013 MIT Commencement Speech Sometimes, life isn't something one can plan out, and sometimes "perfect" doesn’t exist. This is the message Drew Houston (the CEO and founder of Dropbox) looked to promote during his 2013 Commencement Speech at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In this speech, Drew Houston employed a range of rhetorical strategies, including humor, emotional appeals, and storytelling, to captivate his audience and effectively convey his message about the significance of following one's passion and persisting through setbacks. By deftly weaving these rhetorical devices throughout his speech, Houston not only engages and entertains his listeners but also inspires them to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance.
In his wisely crafted and remarkably creative speech given to Stanford graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs distinctly relates and emotionally persuades his audience through repetition and imagery to enforce the idea of following your dreams. Jobs uses his personal experiences throughout his life by using emotion to convey to his audience the importance of living a life you’re proud of. He also develops his credibility through the use of imagery and repetition. Steve Jobs has lived a difficult life, experiencing many hardships and misfortunes throughout his time. He uses these experiences to display emotion and teach his audience a valuable life lesson.
Personal Statement A human being has one life and one life only. The older I get the more I realize how precious my time is. An old friend of mine a mechanical engineer who has lived through the prime of his life reflected back on some marvelous experiences he had as a child where his parent would take him every week to watch the trains go by.
The Steve Jobs commencement speech was a speech that was given by the former Apple Inc. CEO to Stanford University during the 114th commencement on 12th June 2005. The speech Steve Jobs gave Stanford University is a very effective speech, because of his use of rhetorical devices. Jobs especially use his background and childhood to play upon his rhetorical approach. In Steve Jobs, he tells several stories about love, detection, death, loss. The main part of the Speech is how Steve Jobs encourages the students to pursue their dreams, and do what makes them happy, even if it all doesn’t go after the plan.
He believes people should pursue a career they are Passionate about. Working a job, you hate for the rest of your natural life can be a detriment on the person and the employer. There are some who may oppose this kind of position and say earning more is the prize because in the end the money will make you happier. The question that might refute this argument is, then why do people still complain about their jobs? If everyone loved money so much they would only have positive things to say about their work lives.
After years of struggling with depression and anxiety I started believing I was functioning like a real human should. In Roger Ebert: The Essential Man by Chris Jones, Ebert is essentially on his deathbed during the documentary on his life but the audience is never shown Ebert giving up on life. Rather than continue trying to prolong his life with dangerous surgeries, Ebert decided to spend his last remaining days on Earth with his loved ones. If I had been in Ebert’s position, my life
So that means he did not give up and continued with his journey in life. Steve Jobs has a very hard situation when he was young. His parents almost gave him up for adoption. Then he dropped out of college because he knew that his parents did not have enough money to pay and they were wasting all of their savings.during that moment he kept have classes of calligraphy. But more problems came.
Great Storytelling Lu Jia Delivered on a campus in California to an audience of a few thousands, yet it ended up inspiring tens of millions from both U.S. and worldwide; worshiped by Silicon Valley as the ultimate career talk, yet it embodied many aspects of life - chance, love, loss, and ultimately death. Short but smart, targeted yet universal, poignant and timeless – thus is Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford. Some attribute its success to Jobs’ personal influence and charisma – they do add significant weight to the speech, undeniably. But close inspections from the lenses of rhetorical analysis allow us to appreciate this speech from a different perspective – in particular, how the speech was crafted into a fitting response to its rhetorical situation and how Jobs managed to strike a chord with his audience through the masterful use of logos, pathos and ethos, whether planned or not.
Jobs, Steve. " Steve Jobs's 2005 Stanford Commencement Address.” I agree with this because what Steve is saying is true, death is all of our final destination for everyone and no one has escaped it. So we must all take chances in life and hope for the best and not worry about the “cons” in life and focus more on the
Some say getting hired at any job can be difficult, especially if it considers taking a few risks to work during long hours. Like Russel Honore and Bill Laitner talks about how they risked to not work for anything they were interested in, but who can complain when somebody earns money to take care of oneself? Some people believe that having a job is a privilege, and that anyone should be thankful for having that job even if some of those employees do not like it. Although having a job can be time-consuming and stressful, it is a responsibility to provide for oneself with anything that comes from work. Appreciate a job that can get someone paid for something that they have to do.
There are many who argue about the value of life. According to Shakespeare's complex interpretation of life filled with disappointments through the thoughts of his character, Hamlet, "By sleep to say we end the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. ' Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-" (Shakespeare, 3.1. 5-9) explains that death is a better option than a life filled with disappointment and hatred- the corruption and grief that Hamlet had to face. But some are grateful for life, such as Roger Ebert, who has gone through physical challenges and learned to be humble and optimistic by having learned to cope with his losses, by writing (Jones, 20).
Throughout his speech, Jobs’ main goal was to connect with the audience on different levels and build trust so they believe him when he says if a person works hard and always follow their dreams, they will be successful. He establishes the connection through his style of writing by using ethos, pathos, diction, and repetition. Steve Jobs needed to prove to the audience that he was a credible person to talk about following dreams, and working hard. He used ethos to demonstrate how he is
In the speech, Jobs said, “Your time is limited, so don 't waste it living someone else 's life. Don 't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people 's thinking. Don 't let the noise of others ' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Jobs was fired from Apple back in 1985 because the board believed he was no longer useful to the company, in fact, they believed he was being detrimental to the business, he says “our visions of the future began to diverge and… our Board of Directors sided with him.” Jobs chose to talk about how he was fired from Apple, the company he had founded, because it reveals Job’s biggest failure, He had spent most of his adult life growing the company, only to have it taken away, yet Jobs pushed on and recovered it later on. This use of pathos strengthens the connection with his audience, and shows how someone so successful once reached rock bottom, yet managed to climb his way back up, and it inspires them to be like