I don’t know if you had a chance to listen to Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. It’s an amazing talk, full of pearls of wisdom.
Check it out…
I really connected with his address, in many ways.
He is so right when he said that you can only connect the dots looking back and not looking forward. Looking at my own life, if you had told me back in 2000 that I would strike it big in affiliate marketing, I would have given you a funny look.
Back in 2000 I didn’t even know what affiliate marketing was, and I had no plans of being an entrepreneur, financially independent, or anything like that. My plans were to become an academic, a physics professor.
A few years later I discovered that being an academic was NOT my true passion. Nevertheless, I finished my PhD and about 1 year after that point I went full time as an affiliate marketer.
Not only am I truly passionate about what I do now, but I can connect the dots back to everything I learned back in my physics days. As a physics major and later as physics graduate student I developed and fine tuned my problem solving and analytical skills to a very high level.
These skill sets have proved incredibly valuable as PPC affiliate.
As a graduate student I did a lot of work with computer simulations and I learned the importance of obtaining statistically relevant results before jumping to any conclusions. This is yet, another very important skills for anyone who does PPC.
As a physics grad student I never knew the skills I was developing would make me rich one day. It’s funny how things work out!
It’s so important to pursue your true passion in life and leverage your strengths, if you want to be truly successful. Chances are if you find something you’re passionate about it’s because it’s something where you’re leveraging your strengths.
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Great speech. It really makes me wonder if he is as crazy as people make him out to be.I guess it is a little evil genius.
Amit,
Yea I’ve seen it actually a few times over at Aaron Wall’s Blog http://www.seobook.com/about.shtml I’m not sure if you know Aaron or not, but I’d imagine you do since you’ve been around the PPC game for awhile.
yeah .. really admiring.
Well if he is an evil genious, the world could do with a lot more like him.
I seen it before. Great speech. I knew that I’m not cut out for 9-5. It doesn’t make me happy. Since I have computers background, I knew I would do something in computers, may be write that next innovative software and make it big from there but I didn’t know it would be marketing..internet marketing that is, a field I never even thought of getting into. I enjoy ever aspect of marketing now. Fascinating field.
Yeah Amit, that is definitely one to watch at least once a year. Jobs is an amazing guy despite his sometimes ruthless reputation (well, in the past anyway). He truly exudes the core values of the early Silicon Valley techies who were more about personal growth and bringing cool products to market than in making a billion dollars off an IPO. I always love that part about the Whole Earth catalog because that was such a favorite of mine growing up–I still own three of the original editions. Stay hungry, stay foolish…
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