Death is Life’s change agent.

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

スティーブ・ジョブスが2005年にスタンフォード大の卒業式で行ったスピーチです。
彼自身は大学を卒業していないことから始まるスピーチは、アップルの起業、アップルからの解雇、がんの宣告など、とても興味深いものです。
私が一番感銘を受けたのは、以下の部分です。

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
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 others’ 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.

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以下は、動画です。英語の字幕がついています。

残念ながら、私は今のところApple製品を使っていません。