Remembering, Reflecting Reflecting On the Life of The Man Who Changed the World and so Many Lives

Four years ago yesterday we lost a brilliant thinker. A drop out who took innovation to a whole new platform. A man who may "have acted like a jerk," but if anyone knows what real passion for what you do and how you do it is, you'll agree when I say that man was passionately loyal.

Thank you, Steve.

I wish I could tell you what an impact your speech at Stanford University made in my life one night in November of 2013 through a random, random playlist and some artist named ROUS and a song called L.I.F.E. but I guess that's the irony of it all..I got my life back and your words ..they were exactlty what I needed to hear in that moment.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - 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. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. "

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new...Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

You were right. Gosh Darn were you right, Steve.