Question

Analysis steve jobs commencement speech stanford 2005. Explore and describe the content of the speech. Provide a summary of the speech. The following questions may help you develop this portion of your analysis: •What were the main points of the speech? How were they easy or not so easy to follow?•How were these main points developed? (Use of examples? Use of statistics?Use of metaphors?) •How was the message ‘worded’? What language was used? Did any terms or phrases really make an impression? Why and what effect did those words have?•Who was the intended audience? What cues/language clued you into who is the intended audience? How would you evaluate the speaker’s ability to address the intended audiencnce?

Answer 1

The speech done by Steve Jobs had been named as Stay hungry, stay foolish. As an influential orator as Steve Jobs was, his speech was intended for every person who wanted to be big in their life. The main points obviously highlightwed on how a passion driven person can not resist to become successful, there were a lot of points that he touched, in order to inspire everyone who for once, listened to his speech. Some of the major in his speech were of connecting the dots, love and loss and death. It is important that every person attempting to be successful has to think out of the box, think different, to explore the imaginative and the creative part of this brain, and that only by lo9konf at the dots in a backward direction, one could connect the dots for the future. His second and the most important life lesson stated that only after a person would find what they love, they would move in order to achieve the same. This love could be in the form of any interest that the person might have, be it in the form of their interest subject or something completely anti of the same. Only when a person would determine their passion, they could forget everything else and concentrate towards their goal. Also, he taught to accept one of the biggest realities of life, death. Death is something that is inevitable and be it a peaceful one or a more draining death, will occur to people. It is smart to realise and accept that one day everyone has to die, so that before death, every person could make sure that they achieve all what they have ever aimed for.

Why this speech was so influential because the language had been kept simple, such that anybody could easily comprehend it. Also, live examples were given that made understanding easier. Real life examples were given such that people could connect to what had been faced by the man himself. Nothing in the speech seemed superficial, hard to believe and the best of the words are the words that coincide with reality. Also, the speech showed that mr Steve Jobs had a command in his words and in his speech such that every person listening, would be glued onto his words.