A Quote Worth Reading..

I love this Steve Jobs quote (Yes, I know that he was a dick and it’s cliche to post a Steve quote…just bare with me).

While on my current journey to getting on the right track both professionally and personally, I wanted to share this to anyone else who feels lost. I like this quote because it helps knowing that my past experiences weren’t necessarily meaningless but instead can be used as a unique advantage.

(Steve Jobs on Creativity)

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. Unfortunately, that’s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

— Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995