Rhetorical Analysis Of How To Live Before You Die By Steve Jobs
On December 7 2016, I watched the Ted Talk “how to live before you die” by Steve Jobs, the founder of the Apple technology company. In his Ted Talk, Jobs gives an inspirational speech to Stanford University graduates of 2005; during his speech, jobs explained that doing “what you love” will bring you true satisfaction and happiness. Because if you love something so much, you have the passion and desire to do your best work and are willing to success no matter what life throws at you. Jobs elaborates more on the concept by tell us about the time he lost what he loved to do, when he got fired from Apple. It was like life had hit him “in the head with a brick.” But he refused to give up and he ended up starting Next and Pixar, both of which were a huge success.
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And although some people would have given up when life got hard, Jobs instead urges us to keep pushing and prove people wrong by “doing what you believe is great work.” He also wants us to realize that our downfalls only makes us stronger, because getting fired from apple was “awful tasting medicine;” But he didn’t give up because it was something he really loved.
Furthermore, Jobs explain that in order to live a truly satisfied life with happiness, we can’t let “the noise of others’ opinions drown out” our “own inner voice.” And we do this by following our dreams and doing what we love every day, after all “the only way to do great work is to love what you do” as long as we live. Because at the end of the day, our best work is the product of love and happiness that only we experience in life; which goes to show that true satisfaction can be obtained through
love. I agree with Jobs, that doing “what you love” will bring you true satisfaction and happiness. I think that Jobs is right because finding true satisfaction can be hard especially because most people live with “dogma- the results of other people’s thinking,” and it can be hard to find satisfaction from something people force you to do. Some might object, by bringing up the fact that everyone is in control of their lives; but that’s not the case because people forget that “time is limited,” so they waste it living someone else’s dreams. At the end of the day Jobs tries to remind us that we all don’t live forever so “don’t waste” time “living someone else’s life,” and start doing the things that pleases us the most; So that at death we can be satisfied and happy at our every accomplishment not someone else’s.
And although some people would have given up when life got hard, Jobs instead urges us to keep pushing and prove people wrong by “doing what you believe is great work.” He also wants us to realize that our downfalls only makes us stronger, because getting fired from apple was “awful tasting medicine;” But he didn’t give up because it was something he really loved.
Furthermore, Jobs explain that in order to live a truly satisfied life with happiness, we can’t let “the noise of others’ opinions drown out” our “own inner voice.” And we do this by following our dreams and doing what we love every day, after all “the only way to do great work is to love what you do” as long as we live. Because at the end of the day, our best work is the product of love and happiness that only we experience in life; which goes to show that true satisfaction can be obtained through
love. I agree with Jobs, that doing “what you love” will bring you true satisfaction and happiness. I think that Jobs is right because finding true satisfaction can be hard especially because most people live with “dogma- the results of other people’s thinking,” and it can be hard to find satisfaction from something people force you to do. Some might object, by bringing up the fact that everyone is in control of their lives; but that’s not the case because people forget that “time is limited,” so they waste it living someone else’s dreams. At the end of the day Jobs tries to remind us that we all don’t live forever so “don’t waste” time “living someone else’s life,” and start doing the things that pleases us the most; So that at death we can be satisfied and happy at our every accomplishment not someone else’s.