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Steve Jobs - "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Podcasthero.com. Welcome to The Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm our host, Andrew McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Steve Jobs, Co founder of Apple, from his
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  famous Stanford commencement speech.
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  He said your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone
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  else's life. That's not just motivational,
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  it's true your time is limited. You have a finite number of
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  days, a finite number of hours, a specific amount of time, and
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  nobody knows exactly how much they get.
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  And Jobs is asking, are you spending that limited time
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  living your life or someone else's?
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  Living someone else's life looks like this.
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  Pursuing the career your parents wanted for you instead of the
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  one you want. Chasing the markers of success
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  other people defined instead of what actually matters to you.
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  Making decisions based on what looks impressive rather than
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  what feels meaningful. It's following a script someone
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  else wrote. Jobs, dropped out of college,
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  started a company in a garage, got fired from his own company,
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  and then came back and revolutionized multiple
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  industries. None of that was in anyone
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  else's script for him. It was his life, his choices,
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  his path. He wasn't living to meet someone
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  else's expectations. He was living according to his
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  own vision. And here's what makes this quote
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  powerful. He's not saying it from
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  privilege or ease. He said this after being
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  diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, after staring at his own
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  mortality. When you truly understand that
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  your time is limited, you stop wasting it on someone else's
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  priorities. You stop living for approval,
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  you stop following paths that don't excite you, and you stop
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  pretending to want things you don't actually want.
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  You start living your life because it's the only one you
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  have. So here's the question.
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  Whose life are you living right now?
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  Yours, or the one you think you're supposed to live because
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  your time's limited and you don't get a second chance to
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  live it as yourself, so don't waste it.
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  That's it for today. I'm Andy McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.