Storytelling Techniques in Action Inspirational Success Quotes: What Did Steve Jobs Say about  Connecting the Dots?

Steve Jobs, who never finished college, gave the commencement address for Stanford‘s 2005 graduating class. “Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation,” he quipped.

His speech is a brilliant demonstration of storytelling as a tool of transformation.

He told 3 stories from his own life. The first had to do with connecting the dots.

Did you ever know the connection between calligraphy and computers?  You can read or watch his address for that trivia.

What stands out most for me in his story about connecting the dots are these inspirational quotes: Emphasis is mine, to guide you.

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.

This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Jobs didn’t graduate college. He even got fired from the very company he founded. Then he contracted the cancer that killed him this week.

Yet none of those things stopped him living his purpose in life.

Blessings are treasures hidden in life’s challenges.

Steve Jobs brilliantly demonstrated this in his speech. He used his own personal narrative examples to teach valuable life lessons to the young graduates. 

He didn’t talk about his numerous accomplishments, all the technology he helped bring into being, or all the money he made.

Jobs talked about the power in his pain and the message in his mess.

Find the Miracle Hidden in Your Own Difficulties

And to better understand the power in your pain and the message in your mess – uncover the good things that came dressed in what seemed like trouble, trials and tribulations at the time.

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