Nothing Is Ever Wasted
Doolittle, Missouri, 2010.
Every few years, I re-read Steve Jobs's 2005 commencement address at Stanford. It is particularly encouraging at times when gambles are not paying off, as Jobs echoes in different words the wisest piece of advice I ever received: nothing you do in life is ever wasted.
"Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, 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 -- because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference."
Posted on Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010
