Steve Jobs: How to live before you die Video on TED.com
"Remembering that we'll all be dead soon is one of the most important tools I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life...because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarassment or failure...these things all fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you're 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.
"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 life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you'll gradually become the old and be clearedaway...Your time is limited, so don't waste it living somebody 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 other people's opinion drown out your own inner voice. And most important - have the courage to follow your heart and intiution. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary...
The quoted last message from the Whole Earth Catalogue (1968-1972)
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