Steve Jobs: How to live before you die

Stanford University 2005
Steve Jobs: How to live before you die
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says  (Stanford University News script)
Summary
We can't predict how to connect the dots which are the events we took part in. Thus, You have to do anything we want to do with trusting our instinct and destiny. Even if it'll be hard or it's something we won't understand the reasen to do. So we believe that the dots will get  connected with each other somewhere and someday.
We have to continue doing what we love if we're hit something on our head or we have met bad things. Don't stop what we love to do. We have to find it and don't settle.
Our time is limited. Thus, we can believe that our time is important. We listen to our inner voice, follow our heart and progress with courage. We don't have time to stop along the way.
His message is "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish".

◆Viewpoints&Discussion
1, Please correct it. Please explain about your educational background.  How different is it from Jobs?
I went to preschool for 2 years. After that, I went to elementary school for 6 years, then middle school for 3 years that all Japanese children did. Next, I decided to take the entrance exam for high school which was a high level public school, but I failed the entrance exams. I went to the lowest level public high school for 3 years.
I tried going to a four year university but I failed again. I went to a Junior college for 2 years. There were some reasons I chose this Junior college. First, it was the school that took about 15 minutes by bicycle from my house. Second, its exam was held at the end of March of that year when I failed. Almost all of the schools' examinations were finished. Additionally, it had a course that was the Faculty of Home Economics.
I have loved cooking and sewing. However, my family thought that they were not courses but hobbies. I studied hard in this college to get a license to be a home economics instructor. I did a teaching practice. However, I recognized that time that it's difficult to be a teacher if you're from a Junior college. The people who had a teaching practice with me from a four year college had higher skills than I did, although I took classes in college from morning to evening, but they took afternoon classes only. I gave up the last exam for getting assigned to school, although I have a license to be a home economics instructor.
The difference between Jobs and I was that I didn't give up to graduate from Junior college. I didn't realize whether the classes I took at the college have value or not. I thought of only getting the necessary credits to graduate and a license. However, I think the skills I learned in college will be helpful every day in my life.

2, If you find an opportunity, would you drop out from school like Jobs?
I think that such an opportunity won't come to me, because my mother who is strict always says, "Don't drop out from school in the middle, even if it is boring." Even now she says that.

3, Have you ever had the experience of connecting the dots in your life?
Yes, I have thought of something. This is my story. I have had one English study-aid book since graduation from high school somehow. My job is to create and sell a product which was the keychain of the flag pattern. Now Japan has become a famous country in the world. Many foreigners come to Japan. By chance, I made some new friends who spoke English very well. They taught me how to make time and how to use Skype. Finally, I could start studying English using this book. Before that, I wondered when I caould use it. Now I use it every day. It has become a weary book and I realize that there are many things I forgot when I read it though it makes me happy because I remember that it was kept for over ten years.

4. Have you ever lost something or someone you love? How did you feel?
No, l haven't. However, I thought that l was like someone who fired Jobs after reading this story. I think that every story has two sides. Jobs' story will also have. I just sought for what I love to do. And then, we are still creating our dots and are in the middle of each our lives.  I think that those dots will connect with something somewhere and someday. We cannot predict it. It is unpredictable.

5, How will you deal with the feeling if you lose your job or something that you love?
Nothing is unbreakable. All good things must come to an end. However, don't worry. It is a long lane that has no turning. I love those quotes.  Thus, I'll try to prepare something  I can deal with, if bad things happen to me.

6, If you lose something in your life, would you give up easily or do something to get it back?
I don't give up something easily and  I do something to get it back. It is because not giving up is embedded in  my life. It is because my parents taught me.

7, What things do you really want to achieve in your life before you die?
I want our company produces to be known by many people in the world. This is my dream job. I want to achieve it in my life before I die.

8, If you knew you’d have only a month to live, what are you going to do with your last month?
I think that I want to work harder. Then again, I think that I want to continue living as usual. The day when nothing special happened is a special day for me. I worked, studied, ate and I could wake up in the morning.

9, Explain the quote “Stay hungry. Stay foolish”. What do you think it means?
We always try to do something what we love. Some people might not agree. Even so, there are things that we have to continue doing. We don't know why now, but after that we can fine wonderful things we can't live without it.

Don't be content with just what you have. Aim for more. Aim for higher goals in life, and try your very best in achieving your dreams. Stay foolish, this means to try to be curious to find out things you can prove. At first you might fail, and you might hear people mocking you. Don't give up on it, and stay stronger to prove yourself.

Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one

TEDWomen 2013
Maysoon Zayid:
I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one (script)
Summary
It's a great talking for us who are Japanese, because I think that Japanese people are always hiding their lacking and different parts. They like the same things when they do something. However, there are many different types of person in the world. All people have something they can't do, but they can try all things. What you can't do has no meaning to compare to other people. You have to compare yourself to old version of yourself who couldn't do it yesterday. You must grow little by little. You can do it.

Sugar Blues

Sugar Blues
Summary
Yesterday, I went to watch the movie that is entitled in Sugar Blues. I continued to be told by my mother that sugar is wrong for our health when I was a child. She forbade me to drink coke. However, in this film, many people don't know that sugar is wrong. Farmers, factories, government and the media are  cooperating to make people believe that sugar is not bad for their health. Then people don't have a doubt. Even if parents forbid their children sugary foods, their grandmother always gives grandchildren cakes and say  " Your mom is  strange" No one agrees with the family in the belief that sugar is dangerous for our health. Mom is fighting against farmers, factories, government and the media alone. They are seeking for benefits. Our world can't be changed. People gradually forget that sugar is dangerous.

TED Prize 2010: Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food

TED Prize 2010
Jamie Oliver:　Teach every child about food (script)
Summary
I was very surprised and I didn't believe that kids nowadays didn't know about vegetables. In this talk, the speaker asked the kids what this vegetable is many times. Those were even tomatoes, kids answered that they didn't know. Of course they didn't know the potatoes with the brown skin. They surely eat potato fries. at fast food shops.  First of all, when many vegetables appeared in front of kids, their reaction was no. Oh my God! People don't know what stuff is that they'll never eat it.
The presenter wants you to teach every child about food, because now,  in America, obesity is a big problem. If you aren't fat, you have highly possibility it in near future. This time, an English person told this story in front of American audience strongly. Unless we have to know our ignorance of food, what we do for kids about food and we change our own diet way, obesity includes more and more. Then people who, especially kids, will be dead through the food that they eat. At home, kids will eat pizza for breakfast. Is it healthy for them? At school, they'll be having milk. However, milk is added with some flavoring, coloring and sugar correctly, because more kids will drink it. If they go out, there are many fast food shops there. Is it better for them to continue those for many years? It'll be easy enough to change it right now.
Our home, school and shop have to cooperate to solve this problem. Just working one source is no meaning. All we have to change our life styles. At home, kids have to try eating. You should cook for them and teach them worth to cook. At school,  everyday school lunch should be changed. A person who has the skill about food should do it and it needs budgets enough. Shops mean food companies have to stop using many sugar and showing  incredible labels. They need to think about health more than benefits.
This is the problem that can be prevented. Now you know that teach every child about food is the most important our life.
Words in this story
obesity /noun/

chef /  cook,food preparer     chief /  leader, chieftain

David Gallo: Underwater astonishments

TED 2007
David Gallo: Underwater astonishments (script)
Summary
I know that in the sea, it's really beautiful and amazing, because I experienced diving one time when I went to Hawaii. I dived only three or tour meter. Although above my head, I could see the surface, it spread the  beautiful world there. Small fish came and pecked my arms. I could touch them with my finger.
The speaker is a geologist, somehow he really loves a world of bioluminescence. He introduces to us what lives in the deep sea. Even in there, there is the food chain, they use to avoid being eaten or to attract prey. And then, amazing things are happening there. Cuttlefish and octopus can change  color and texture to protect themselves to match the surroundings. However, it's just amazing. No one can describe. There is the world which many people don't know about the Earth yet.
Words in this story
 spooked / terrify, terrorize
scooped / pick up and move (something) with a scoop.
texture / skin, body,  feel, touch

Linda Liukas: A delightful way to teach kids about computers

TEDxCERN 2015
Linda Liukas: A delightful way to teach kids about computers (script)
The speaker had a crush on an old man: Vice President of the United States, Mr. Al Gore.
Summary
I also thought that it's too complicated to explain about computer. Only adults could use it. However, the speaker said that it's neither magic and complicated. However, computer code is the next universal language. When there is a little bit fancy user interface, we will be programmers. Then kids will live up in a world where everything is a computer and they now tap, swipe and pinch their way through the computer world. Next step, it'll be better to be creators more.  Tell the kids, "You can change to make anything into a computer," "There are no right answers," "The world is definitely not ready yet, you can change it," "This is a really awesome way that makes the world more ready. It's by building technology and this is the programming that gives you the amazing power.
Words in this story
whimsical / capricious, fickle.
have a crush on / be attracted to, be infatuated with.

Aimee Mullins: My 12 pairs of legs

TED 2009
Aimee Mullins: My 12 pairs of legs   (script)
Summary
Everyone has both strong and weak points and our bodies also have sufficient parts and lacking parts. However, in this last decade, technology is really progressing and public reaction is changing. It could change our deficiency to our advantage.  We can represent the full potential in our humanity more irrespective of having disabilities.  Then we have the need to celebrating  each other.  Having worries and troubles means in our humanity that you are alive. It has the potential to be solved and changed.  It makes us strong and beautiful.

Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace.

TED 2014
Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace. (script)
Summary
You can't choose your parents, even if you are the son of a terrorist though you can choose your peaceful life your own life. I was surprised at this title. However, we also pay careful attention to like him whose father is a terrorist. He is different from his father. We should not have the stereotype and not Judge people by their race, religion or sexual orientation. Why there is bullying there? Violence isn't inherent in one's relation or race. We can break our barrier that we strongly believe is insurmountable to each other. He proved this.
Words in this story
inherent / existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute.
insurmountable /  hopeless, impossible, too great to be overcome.

Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

TED 2016

Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator  (script)

Summary

I remembered the calendar of Napoleon Hill. It also shows your life called a Life Calendar which show a line from January to December side by side, and the top of the vertical axis is the year when you were born.  You go down every year growing. You will fall down quickly if you do anything without consciousness.
So you don't have time that you do only easy and fun things. Probably,you'll do something that has a deadline. However, you will have a side of procrastination, and you won't do something that doesn't have a deadline. It means that you can't do important things because you won't know your life end still. Did you notice that it is procrastinated?
Addition
Another TED talk: Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers, he said that procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity.

Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love

TEDxGoldenGatePark 2012
Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love (script)
Summary
"How fantastic! If I you have a big impact on the world." You probably think that. However, around you, 80 percent people think that they don't enjoy their work. It doesn't matter what the size of your work is. It's important for you to find the work that you can't help doing.
There are three frameworks for you to do passionate work. These are: (1)becoming a self expert, (2) to know your important criteria, and (3)getting more experience.
The reasons why you don't do it: You tell yourself you can't do it, or people around you tell you that you can't do it. Then you start to believe it. It doesn't matter how great your action is.  You can start from a little thing so you accomplish just your own impossibilities. The best way to do this is to surround yourself with passionate people.
The quickest way for you to do what you can't do, is surround yourself with passionate people who already doing it. Its environment will continue giving you a feeling that you can't help doing. It's important for you to decide about the people and environment around you. It'll be better than when you are with 80 percent of people who don't like the work they do. Let's find the things you can't help doing. It'll lead to giving a good impact on the world.
Words in this story
criteria / a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.

The Strengths Finder 2.0 

I love my work. I feel that I can't help doing my work. Thus, I love Mondays when my work starts. I love doing my work hard energetically and carefully. I love doing anything to achieve my goals while thinking of ideas. I believe that ideas come to me from learning, thus I have to collect ideas.  Five strengths themes: Achiever, Ideation, Learner, Deliberative and Input, that help me to enjoy staying in my life.

Achiever® People strong in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.

Ideation® People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.

Learner® People strong in the Learner theme have a great desire to learn and want to continuously improve. In particular, the process of learning, rather than the outcome, excites them.

Deliberative® People strong in the Deliberative theme are best described by the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate the obstacles.

Input® People strong in the Input theme have a craving to know more. Often they like to collect and archive all kinds of information