{"id":1174,"date":"2009-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/01\/25\/1112\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T23:00:00","slug":"1112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/01\/25\/1112\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs&#8216; Commencement address (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news-service.stanford.edu\/news\/2005\/june15\/jobs-061505.html\">June 12, 2005 Commencement address by Steve Jobs<\/a> at Stanford University:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: &#8222;If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?&#8220; And whenever the answer has been &#8222;No&#8220; for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering that I&#8217;ll be dead soon is the most important tool I&#8217;ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything \u2014 all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure &#8211; these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June 12, 2005 Commencement address by Steve Jobs at Stanford University: &#8222;For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: &#8222;If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?&#8220; And whenever the answer has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}