Thought For The Day

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

TFTD - Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

by Nanette

I came across Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at asabagna’s site a while back, and the title words just stuck with me. Apparently they were the words that the crew who put out the Whole Earth Catalog signed off with in their final issue.

Here are a couple of snippets of the speech. 

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

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

Full text of the address.

I think I will make this - Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. - a category to put some of my ideas and thoughts for the future (or the past) in. We’ll see. 

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Friday, June 15, 2007

TFTD - A Different Order of Reality

by Nanette

It’s really too hot here to do much of anything, but in accordance with my “write something every day” thingy, here is today’s Thought for the Day. 

“Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.” Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe, considered by some to be the father of African literature (that is written in English) won the prestigious Man Booker award this year, in honor of his literary career. I’ve not actually read any of his work (except for small excerpts here and there), but someday I’d like to. His “Things Fall Apart”, written in 1958 - I think this was his first published book - analyzes the effects of colonialization on Igbo society in Nigeria, and has been translated into over 50 languages. Hmmm. That was the year I was born. I definitely need to get that then, if only to see how things have changed - or not - since he wrote it.

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