Thanks to you, I have updated the post with the commencement address. If you could please share the whole earth catalog if you find, I would love to share that as well on the main post.

Thank you Jyothi :)

That’s very interesting Jyothi. I was not aware of the whole earth catalog. I would love to read that, if you have a link, kindly do share it, I am sure our readers will benefit from it.

Even I loved the Stanford speech, the first 7 mins or so leaves you completely spell bound. Since you mention the commencement speech, I am sharing the video link of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA

Great inspiration indeed.

THank you Maniparna, I think so too. The hunger for knowledge, success and the aspiration it brings can make a hell lot of a difference. Someone once said that the worst thing to happen in the world is when your dreams are a 100% fulfilled and you don’t have anything else to do. But knowing that life can be worth so much is a brilliant experience indeed and hunger sure can make a lot of impossible things turn around.

Thank you Maitreni, this quote remains to be one of my favourite of all times. I think the very essence of it is beautiful. I even read Rashmi Bansal’s compilation of stay hungry stay foolish which I found was an interesting book to check out. It is a good collection with the stories of some entrepreneurs who have made it big in life and fit very well into the description of stay hungry stay foolish.

A very interesting thought Lata. We certainly are social beings and cannot survive without the society. It becomes an integral part of our living. I guess co-existence is one word which perhaps describes the society and our relationship very well. I like when you say – carve out one’s own path by fulfilling a need of the world around us – a fine way to achieve balance between the intrinsic and external world. It will be a fantastic thing to do. It reminds me a beautiful poetry from one of the kannada texts which said – “Nimmodaniddoo nimmantaagade” meaning being with you but being independent of you.

You are right, that is Steve Jobs quote in a nutshell. If we are able to create that demarcation, the society will respect and appreciate what we are up to and will provide sufficient opportunity for us to establish ourselves.

Thank you for the thoughts Lata, it’s awesome to spark a conversation like this, adds a lot of richness to the quotes :)

Thank you Shweta, hope you are doing good. Congratulations on the launch of your youtube channel – I am sure it will do great.

Inner peace – very true. It is a very impressive thing to achieve and find that satisfaction within. Although we are in a constant turmoil and bombarded by so many things around us, trying to find this can be of incredible help for us to live life at its fullest :)