Liu Meng didn't care what these people were saying, but just repeated the simple words again, "Mr. Jobs, you will definitely use them. Please pack this piece of paper. This string of numbers is just my chat tool number, and you will definitely need it."

Jobs did not hilariously with a group of reporters, but just looked at Liu Meng with a calm and confident look on his face. Jobs immediately felt that this was not a sensational person, but he really couldn't think of anything that needed to meet this young man. He just had a nearly demonic intuition telling him that he seemed to have to take some time to talk to the young man. At this time, the assistant whispered a few words in his ear. Jobs pondered for a moment and said to Liu Meng: "Young man, I admire your courage very much. I also want to talk to you very much, but I really don't have time today. There will be a speech from Stanford University tomorrow. If you are determined, you can wait for me at Apple headquarters in Cupertino."

The reporters were immediately furious when they heard this, "Oh, Mr. Jobs, you are so kind that you gave an unknown young man the opportunity to meet alone."

"I had known that I would have written a string of numbers with half a piece of A4 paper. It was simply an invitation card exclusive to Mr. Jobs. It was such a pity."

Jobs moved his shriveled face and shrugged his shoulders and said indifferently: "The first one to do this is a genius, and the second one to do this, I don't need to repeat it. Goodbye, young man."

After saying that, Jobs left under the escort of the bodyguards. Liu Meng ignored the reporters' sarcasm, just expressing a strong sense of jealousy. After leaving the hotel, he was willing to eat chickens and fill his stomach. Liu Meng began to wonder whether to go back to Cupertino or follow Jobs to Stanford University.

Undoubtedly, Liu Meng has a sense of admiration for Jobs. He also saw Jobs' speech at Stanford on the Internet in his previous life. It was very shocking. Liu Meng, who was confused at the time, also found comfort and spiritual disappointment when he saw this article. After thinking about it, he thought, since he had the opportunity to witness this moment, why not go and take a look? He knew that the great Jobs didn't have much time left, and being able to follow his footsteps was also a rare experience and happiness.

The next day, Liu Meng followed Jobs all the way to Stanford University, one of the most famous institutions in the world, and the holy place in the hearts of countless people. The square was crowded with classmates, and Jobs' fame was very great in the minds of American students. His uniqueness, autocracy, and innovation were the students who pursued the good fortune.

A person without personality, even if he is rich, is unattractive.

Soon Jobs appeared on the stage, and no student was making noise below and unanimously expressed his respect for Jobs. Liu Meng stood not far away and looked at Jobs, and he also felt like he was a different life. It was confirmed with the situation he saw on the Internet, and his eyes were also blurred.

Jobs began to speak.

"I'm honored to be with you today to attend the graduation ceremony. Stanford is one of the best universities in the world. I've never graduated from college. To be honest, today may be the closest day in my life to graduation."

Jobs said as he paused and smiled. The students in the audience applauded thunderously.

"Today I want to tell you three stories in my life. It's not a big deal, nor is it a big reason, it's just three stories."

The first story is about how to connect the little bits and pieces of life.

I dropped out of school after six months at Reed College, but about a year and a half later. Before I actually made the decision to drop out, I often went to school to listen. So, why should I drop out?

The story starts before I was born. My biological mother is a young, unmarried graduate student. She decided to let others adopt me, and she really hoped that the person who adopted me was a college degree. So, she had arranged everything that would allow me to be adopted by a lawyer and his wife at birth.

But she didn't expect that when I was born, the lawyer couple suddenly decided that they wanted a girl. So my adoptive parents suddenly received a call in the middle of the night: "We have a baby boy who was born accidentally here, do you want him?" They replied: "Of course!"

But my biological mother then found out that my adoptive mother had never been to college, and my adoptive father had never even been to high school. So she refused to sign the adoption documents. Within a few months, my biological mother softened because my parents promised her to let me go to college.

When I was seventeen, I really went to college. But I was stupid to choose a school that was almost as expensive as you Stanford. My parents were still in the blue-collar class and they spent almost all their savings on my tuition.

After six months, I no longer see the value. I don’t know what I want to do in my life, nor do I know what kind of answers college can help me find. But here, I spent almost all my parents’ savings in my life. So I decided to drop out of school, and I thought it was the right decision.

I can't deny that I was really scared at the time, but now looking back, it was indeed one of the best decisions I have made in my life.

Jobs said that he stopped here and smiled habitually. Liu Meng found that he always smiled self-deprecatingly when he talked about embarrassing past. This was the consistent manifestation of a sensitive and powerful person in his heart. He also had this habit, so he could immediately realize the pain and confusion of Jobs when he dropped out of school, but there was a powerful and mysterious force supporting him.

The moment I made the decision to drop out, I finally didn't have to choose courses that made me uninterested. Then I could also attend those interesting courses.

But this is not romantic at all. I have no dormitory, so I can only sleep on the floor of my friend's room; I go to pick up 5 cents coke bottles, just to fill my stomach, on Sunday nights, I need to walk seven kilometers through the temples of the city, just to eat a weekly meal. But I like it. I follow my intuition and curiosity, and many things I encounter have proven to be priceless since then.

Let me give you an example: Reed College offered perhaps the best art font course in the United States at that time. Every poster and every drawer label in this university is full of beautiful art fonts. Because I dropped out of school and didn't have to go to normal classes, I decided to take this course and learn how to write beautiful art fonts. I learned a variety of beautiful fonts. I learned how to change the length of spaces in different combinations of letters, and how to make the best printing style. That is something that science can never capture, beautiful, real art exquisite, and I found that it was really wonderful.

At that time, it seemed that these things were not practically possible in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first macintosh computer, it was not like that. I designed all the things I learned at that time into the Mac. It was the first computer that used exquisitely printed fonts. If I had not dropped out of school at that time, I would not have the opportunity to take this art font course that I was interested in. The mac would not have so many rich fonts and pleasing font spacing. If Windows did not copy the Mac, then the personal computer would not have such wonderful fonts as it is now.

When Jobs said this, he didn't forget to tease his old rival Gates. Gates had no way to do anything about Jobs. Who made him really learn from Jobs' creativity? The students in the audience burst into laughter and thunderous applause.

Of course, when I was in college, it was impossible to connect the little things from the past. But when I looked back on all this ten years later, I really realized.

Again, it is impossible to connect these fragments when you look forward; you can only connect them bit by bit when you look back. So you must believe that these fragments will be connected one day in the future. You must believe in something: your courage, purpose, life, cause and condition. Doing so has never let my hope fade, but it just makes my life more unique.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was very lucky because I found something I loved very early. My friend and I started Apple in our parents’ garage when we were twenty. We worked very hard. Ten years later, the company grew from a pauper in those two garages to a large company worth more than 4,000 employees and a large company worth more than 2 billion. In the ninth year of the company’s establishment, we just released the best product, which is macintosh. I was almost thirty. In that year, I was fired. How could you be fired by the company you founded yourself?

Jobs smiled and laughed at himself, and the expression on his face flashed. Dare to face the pain in his heart is a must-have skill for every strong man.

Jobs continued with a smile: "When Apple grew rapidly, we hired a talented guy to run the company with me. In the first few years, the company ran very well. But then we had a different view of the future and we finally started arguing. When the argument was too big, the board of directors stood on his side. So at the age of thirty, I was fired. Under the eyes of so many people, I was fired. In my thirty years, all the pillars of my life were far away from myself, which was a devastating blow."

In the first few months, I really didn't know what to do. I lost my former entrepreneurial passion and felt that I was frustrating for those who started my business with me. I made things bad and I even wanted to escape from Silicon Valley. But I gradually discovered the light and I still loved the career I was engaged in. The things that happened at Apple did not change that at all. I was expelled, but I still loved it. So I decided to start over.

I didn't realize it at the time, but afterwards it turned out that being fired from Apple was the best thing in my life. Because the heaviness of being a successful person was replaced by the relaxation of being an entrepreneur: I didn't value anything so much. It made me feel so free and entered one of the most creative periods of my life.

When Liu Meng heard this, he couldn't help but sigh that this is probably a quality that successful people have, that is, turning adversity into good times that motivates one's own progress, and treating every setback as the original driving force for progress.

In the next five years, I founded a company called next, and a company called Pixar, and then met an elegant woman who later became my wife. Pixar produced the world's first computer-made animated film - Toy Story, and Pixar is now the most successful computer production studio in the world. In a series of operations, Apple acquired Next, and then I returned to Apple. The technology we developed in Next played a key role in the revival of Apple.

I can be very sure that if I were not fired by Apple, one of these things would not have happened. The taste of this good medicine is too bitter, but I think patients need this medicine. Sometimes, life will pick up a brick and pat your head and don't lose confidence. I know very well that the only thing that keeps me going is what I do that makes me love.

You need to find what you love. This is true for work and your lover. Your work will occupy a large part of life. Only by believing that what you do is a great job can you be content with your satisfaction. If you haven't found anything you like now, then keep looking, don't stop, look with all your heart, and you will know when you find it. Just like any sincere relationship, it's time to go new. So keep looking until you find it, don't stop!

My third story is about death.

When I was seventeen, I read a sentence: "If you treat every day as the last day of your life, then one day you will find yourself right." This sentence left a deep impression on me. From then on, for 33 years, every morning I would ask myself in the mirror: "If today was the last day of my life, would you accomplish what you wanted to do today?" When the answer was given "no" many times in a row, I knew I needed to change something.

After hearing this, Liu Meng fell into deep thought, as if he understood why, as he entered the countdown stage of life, Jobs was still able to do his beloved career and devote his energy to innovation. Sometimes he would ask himself, if tomorrow was the last day of his life, what would he want to do? Is it because of his nostalgia for life and his fear of death?

"Remember you are about to die" is the most important motto I have encountered in my life. It helps me point out the important choices in life. Because almost everything, including all honors, all pride, all fear of embarrassment and failure, will disappear in the face of death. What I see is what is really important left behind.

Sometimes you think that you will lose something. "Remember you're about to die" is the best way to avoid these thoughts I know. You're naked and there's no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a test at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed that there was a tumor in my pancreas. I didn't know what the pancreas was at that time. The doctor told me that it was probably an incurable cancer and that I still had three to six months to live in this world. My doctor told me to go home and sorted out everything about me, and that was the procedure for the doctor to announce the preparation of death.

That means you will finish what you say to your child in the next ten years in a few months; that means getting everything done and making your family live as easy as possible; that means you will say "goodbye".

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later one morning I had a live section and the doctor stuck an endoscope through my throat, through my stomach, and into my intestines, and used a needle to take several cells on the tumor on my pancreas. I was very calm at the time because I was injected with a sedative. But my wife was there and later told me that when the doctor looked at these cells under the microscope they started screaming because these cells turned out to be a very rare pancreatic cancer cell that could be cured with surgery. I had this surgery and now I am cured.

That was the closest time I was to death, and I hope it was the closest time in the next few decades. I came back from the vein of death. Death was just a useful but purely a intellectual concept to me. I can say to you more certainly: No one wants to die, and even if people want to go to heaven, people will not die to go there.

But death is the common end point for each of us. No one can escape it, and it should be so. Because death is the best invention in life. It clears the old so as to make way for the new. You are new now, but from now on, you will gradually become old and then be cleared. I'm sorry that this is dramatic, but it's very real.

Your time is limited, so don't waste them on repeating other people's lives. Don't be bound by dogma, that means you live with the result of other people's thinking. Don't be overshadow your true inner voice by the noisy views of others. And most importantly, you have the courage to follow the instructions of your intuition and soul.

They know to some extent what you want to be, and all other things are secondary.

Finally, I would like to say, "If you seek knowledge, if you are hungry, if you are foolish." I always hope that I can do that. Now, as you are about to graduate and start a new journey, I hope that you can do this. (To be continued...)
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