Connecting the dots

In June 2005, Steve Jobs delivered this speech to the graduates of Stanford University. In it, he urged them to follow their hearts and find what they loved because this, he said, is what makes you keep going.

"I am honored to be with you today for your commencement at one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories:"

Watch the first part of the speech and do the multiple choice quiz:

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Steve Jobs’s biological mother
1. didn’t want to put him up for adoption
2. wanted a little girl
3. was a single mother
4. insisted that he should be adopted by a lawyer
He dropped out because
1. He preferred a cheaper college
2. He found the classes uninteresting
3. He had suddenly realised what he wanted to do in life
4. He felt bad about spending all his parents savings
Dropping out from college
1. is a decision he has regretted ever since
2. turned out to be the best decision he could have made
3. was an easy decision to make at the time
4. allowed him to stop taking classes
During the months after he dropped out
1. he slept in a friend’s spare room
2. he subsisted on coke
3. he found it difficult to make ends meet
4. he slept in a Hare Krishna temple
He took a calligraphy class at Reed College
1. to draw the campus posters and drawer labels
2. because he was already designing the typefaces for the Macintosh
3. to know more about typefaces than his rival Bill Gates
4. that was very useful years later