You Cant Connect The Dots Looking

Jobs opened his Stanford University commencement address on June 12, 2005 with this observation, in the first of three personal stories he called "Connecting the Dots." He described how dropping out of Reed College, sitting in on a calligraphy class out of pure curiosity, and then being fired from Apple all felt meaningless in the moment — but later proved to be formative. The speech was written by Jobs himself over six months in the lead-up to commencement, in close consultation with his wife Laurene Powell Jobs, and drew directly from his own biography rather than generalities.