“Stay hungry, stay foolish”, as Steve Jobs wrote the best speech of his life

But that was just the beginning.

The slow success of the speech

The moment YouTube was only online for a few months, Twitter does not yet exist and Facebook did not even have the feed with the news. The national media did not talk about the speech. Apple no widespread press releases. But Stanford published the transcription on his primitive website And people started to find out. I recently went back to the E -mails that I received in June 2005 and found a few copies sent by various mailing list. With the passage of weeks and months, more and more people found the speech. Berlin says it has become “Virale in Slow Motion“.

**About the speech began to be talked about his honesty ** – Explains Porter, one of the representatives of Stanford’s students in 2005 -. I happened to have agreements in Hollywood – I am a TV author – and when people saw that I was from Stanford, he asked me if I had seen Steve Jobs’s speech “.

However, Jobs rarely spoke about it. As far as I am concerned, I have never seen his quote on this subject. A person said jokes that he had bought it from ReactionSpeeee-Dotcom.“It was really difficult for me to prepare myself, but I really enjoyed it (especially when it’s over)“was his response to a thank you card from the representatives.

Six years later, something happened that would have changed the perception of the public’s speech. Stanford Jobs had the diagnosis of cancer and the operation he had undergone a year later, told that he had been the moments when he had become closer to death and that he hoped to have a few decades. On October 5, 2011After having fought against the tumor for many months, students said he had defeated, Steve Jobs died.

Everyone who has listened to his speech today knows how much he did in his 56 years of life. Just like any other public figure of our time, jobs lived after the advice that he offered students that day. He pursued what he loved and refused to lead the life of someone else. The result is the legendary products that it has created. But although his gadgets have changed his life to many, nobody beats the heart and soul as the words spoken with Stanford. A random example: in 2016, after the Cleveland Cavaliers had lost the first two games of the NBA Finals, LeBron James He recited the speech To his companions discouraged in the dressing room, which they galvanize. Kevin Love is written “Stay hungry, stay foolish“On the shoes. Four games later James raised the trophy for the victory of the championship.

For the October Repatriation, former student representative Paola Fontein is planned to have tailor -made sweaters with the inscription “Still hungry, still foolish“. I asked her if she thinks Jobs’s Larger degree speech of all time. “I would say yes – He answered -. I don’t feel anyone quoting others“.

This article originally appeared SU Based us.