The Day They Told Steve Jobs He’d Die – In 90 Days.
During the commencement address for Stanford University’s graduates in June, 2005, Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer (co-founder of Pixar animation studios e.g. Finding Nemo, Cars), and inventor of the wildly popular iPod, confided something the audience had never heard. Here’s how that started…
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable,...