“You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life.”

You might take this anecdote as just another example of Steve Jobs’s well documented obsession with imagining his own death as a motivation tool. This is a guy who later claimed he asked himself “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” in... See more

In his famous 2005 Stanford Commencement Address, Steve Jobs described how we cannot understand the connective threads of our lives without looking back--a sort of "rear view mirror" Bucket List that only reveals itself by studying our own past.

Here is how Jobs summarized it: "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them... See more

Steve Jobs on happy accidents:

"Process makes you more efficient. But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has... See more

Steve Jobs on relationships: https://t.co/TRIZ6Yl0WA

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.