It was a commencement speech given at Stanford University. In his speech, Steve Jobs shared 3 stories from his life and explained how they impacted him. One of the stories, a full third of his speech was about taking a calligraphy class in college! He took it on a whim because it seemed interesting. He had not idea that that one art class "come back to him" ten years later as he made the decisions about the graphics, fonts, spacing, and user interface that would become the first Macintosh computer. Jobs jokingly states in his speech that "windows just copied Mac," so the art class that influenced the creation of the Mac is, according to Jobs also responsible for the look of all computers in use today! He talks about connecting the dots in your life and that you won't know how the dots connect while you are making the dots.
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Thanks, Steve, for the uplifting message which I am so excited to share with my students. Thank you for daring to dream and for placing an importance on the type of creativity that standardize tests can't account for.
Here is the You tube link that I used for the speech. It is only 15 minutes. Watch it, you will be glad you did!
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