Jobs Speech Rhetorical Analysis

Within the three divisions of his speech, Jobs also has the other messages for those who have read and or heard his speech. In his first part of the speech Jobs discusses “connecting the dots”. Basically, Jobs is saying we can only connect the dots backwards not looking forward, meaning we need to have faith in what our future has to hold and pay more attention to what is happening to our current lives so we don’t waste our youthful time worrying about the future. In his first third of the speech Jobs tells us about how he dropped out of college but stayed around as a drop-in. I found that interesting because before, I didn’t think you could take other classes you weren’t assigned to, but as Jobs states in his speech, he took a calligraphy class because he found the art of typography in the …show more content…
I can relate to and agree with Jobs when he says to find what you love to do and don’t stop until you find it. Like Jobs, I found what I love to do at a young age, but it did take me a while to find this passion of mine. In his biography it reads that Jobs was fired from his own company of making new software computers that he loved to do, but that conflict didn’t stop him from doing what he loved to do and later on in his life it helped him to a better experience. Jobs states, “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.” Jobs is insisting that being fired from his company was a great thing to happen to him for the result of starting over and building himself up again. From this I’ve learned that no bad experience should stop us from doing what we love. In addition what I learn from this message is there are no such things as bad experiences because I feel that you’re always constantly learning from every experience good and