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At Stanford's 2005 graduation Steve Jobs spoke to some of the brightest young men and women in the country. Stanford's graduating class of 2005 heard an inspiring and compelling speech split into three stories from Steve Jobs life. Steve Jobs used metaphors, repetition, and antithesis creating an inspiring and compelling argument to never give up on finding and doing what you love.
Steve Jobs split his speech into three stories. The first one was about “connecting the dots.”The whole story is a metaphor having dots stand in as actions that you have done and will do. He also points to how it is “impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.”This is elaborating on the previous metaphor. This states that the actions, dots or in Steve Jobs's case the typography class, at the time seemed to have no clear purpose. However, later on, you can see how it connects to something else that you have or will do.In Steve Jobs' case, the typography class lead to the Macintosh having different fonts. In his second story he, talked about love and loss, explaining what happened when his own company, Apple, fired him, only to have it help in. “It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.”In this metaphor, he has medicine standing in as being fired from Apple, the awful tasting being how it felt, and him needing it because it helped him. He followed up that metaphor with another one,

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