Excellent advice! Don't ever forget it!

Solid words - Most of us find it difficult to shut out the noise of other people's opinions of us and as a result live most of our lives behind a mask that only makes our lives unhappy or unfulfilled. When we do have the courage to break free and look into ourselves then and only then will we be able to embark on what our hearts truly nudge us to do and become.

But in our dictatorial world - it can be hard and especially if we have already directed our lives down a path that demands much of us, then a lot of us end us just being, existing, instead of truly living.

So with these words, simple but profound, we really should follow our hearts and intuition and make everything else secondary.

Thanks jjstockman for sharing!

Thanks for sharing - I hadn't heard these particular words from Steve Jobs. and reading these words have sparked 4 new article ideas.

The one I find particularly interesting is 'Don't be trapped by dogma', because allegedly he eschewed a lot of conventional approaches towards the treatment of his cancer which are known to have good results and allegedly came to regret it as he left it too late.

The reality is that we spend much of our lives living or dying with the results of other people's thinking.

This speech to this day was one of the realest speeches I have heard!

Very valid words for sure. Have the courage, priceless.

Beautiful words that are so inspiring. Thanks for sharing.