Steve Jobs: How to live before you die.

I am fascinated by the fact that I have found a website so intriguing as Ted.com. Thanks to our teachers in Knowledge Management. This website will be a bookmark for as long as it's around. After scanning the website for one of its speakers, I chose the one that I found most inspiring. Inspiration is always a great feeling. I chose Steve Jobs: How to live before you die. Steve Jobs has a story. Without that story, he would be an ordinary man. What I mean by that is that he went down a path with obstacles and without obstacles the path may not have lead him anywhere. Some obstacles he chose, and some he did not. From an early age he has taken the road less traveled. It truly has lead him to success. There are many success stories out there and a lot of people say that his story like Bill Gates is unusual. That being said, I feel his success came from not taking the easy path. I would also agree that success also comes from taking other paths as well. Most people in society choose to take the easy path. There would be an argument to that from some, but I would challenge what people tend to say. Although, Mr. Jobs quit college, which sounds like the easy thing to do, in hindsight it was a difficult decision based on trying to figure out what he was going to do. At least when you are attending an institution you are on a schedule, know what your itinerary is, where you are going to lay your head at night, etc. Most of us think of getting a college education is to better oneself. No matter what we sign up for in life, I believe as Mr. Jobs stated, "Don't lose faith". Whether your in college, sitting behind a desk at a job or caring for a family at home, I too, believe you should love what you do. If you don't, as Mr. Jobs stated, "keep looking, don't settle". We (SCS students) must have that common theme in our heads or none of us would be making the commitment and sacrifice to better ourselves and spend the next 2 years on weekends to do so. I learned a valuable vocabulary word while listening to Mr. Jobs, "dogma". I had never heard anyone reference that word ever. I listened carefully the second time I watched his speech and he said, "living with results of other people's thinking". Wow, I will be advising my friends not to live in dogma. Sometimes coming from a small town and not stepping outside of the box causes people to live in dogma.