Decision Analysis: Blog 2

Eugenio Ramirez
Corporate Finance
Blog 2


Question 1

When Steven Jobs was young he read and remembered always this phrase "If you live everyday as if was the last, someday you will must certainly be right." Death is the destination we all share. Death is the only thing we can be certain about. This speech tells us basically one thing "Stay hungry, Stay foolish " The most uncertain situations in Jobs are the ones uncertain situations that came to his life. He says he would not be where he is now if it was not for those uncertain situations that came to his life. These situations started when he dropped out college and did not know what he wanted to do with his life. He dropped in calligraphy, which would later be implemented in the Mac computer. He tells us we can only connect the dots looking blackguards at our past situation, the other way around will be impossible. He talked also about love and loss. He says he was lucky finding what he wanted while he was only 20 years old, I don't say it was luck, I say he attracted it with his positive thinking and attitude. Here it was when he started Apple, he designed the first Mac before the age of 30, where he got fired from his own company. He was devastating, his focus was gone, disappointed, that he even he apologized for screwing up. He had to start over again, like a beginner who is less sure about everything. he grew from the experience and became free, creative. He said "Sometimes life hits you with a brick. Don't loose faith” The only thing that kept him on was the love for what he did. The last story that he read, which I will also talk in the next answer, is Death.
Apple's CEO had a tumor about a year before his famous speech at Stanford. He was diagnosed with a vey strong type of pancreas cancer, which the doctor was almost certain it was going to kill him within 3 to 6 months. He discovered here that death was the best invention as a life change agent. Our time is limited we should not waste it living someone elses life. To not be trap with what other people think of you. But mostly follow your heart and intuition because they know what u truly want to be.