more Steve Jobs quotes here“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”- Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005
I'm not an Apple junkie and while I do love my iPhone, I can't say my sadness for this stems from extreme brand fandom. It's more so my fascination with creativity and how sad I am that we have lost a great innovator.
A few months ago, I watched a documentary, "Waking Sleeping Beauty"- a film that documents the fall and rise of Disney animators in the late 80's- early 90's. Hello, Hakuna Matata? Footage of young animators collaborating, butting heads, winning, losing, TRYING- to me, this was compelling. Compelling stories like this, the ones shared in Malcom Gladwell's books and profiles of "Wacky Chicks" written up by famed fashion window designer Simon Doonan are more important to me than an episode of the Kardashians where Kim picks out the bottle for her new fragrance. I wish they had a tv show where we got to see what a day in the life of Steve Jobs was like and while I'm happy that some reality television does expose us to talent (American Idol, Top Chef, Project Runway) I can't help but wish there was a little less focus on 'fame' and more on being an individual who gives something to the world.
I want people to be motivated to chase change, seek solutions and explore every day. And my fear is that there is too much tampering with that pure instinct- I've certainly strayed from that philosophy from time to time. It saddens me that it takes a finite end for us to revel in the success of a person. I only found that quote of Steve's on the day that he stepped down, Conan O'Brien was tweeted and Facebooked non stop upon the termination of his time with NBC, we often only explore the lives of great people through their memoirs and biographies; I think we need to be more present and aware of the brilliance around us. This is when I turn to the products from Jobs and hope that somewhere a little child is using an iPad, dreaming up how he can shake the world.
For me, for you you, for the people in our lives and future generations- my hope is that we don't forget to pause and look around, stop seeing things for what they are and recognize what they can be. Because yesterday we lost someone who lived that philosophy and the void must be filled- luckily what he taught us can shape our own efforts.
Thank you so much Steve- you will never be forgotten.
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