“Stay Hungry, stay foolish”
In one of his most brilliant and memorable speeches ever, Steve Jobs had spoken at Stanford University in 2005 about his fight against pancreatic cancer, famously telling his audience to “stay hungry, stay foolish” since a person’s “limited” time on earth should not be wasted in “living someone else’s life.”
His words: “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… 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.” He urged the students not to let the noise of others’ opinions “drown out your 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.”
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish… And I have always wished that for myself… 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.” [The Indian Express, 7th Oct 2011]
