Most people wait for permission to live the life they actually want. Steve Jobs refused to. This 17-minute motivational video walks through the ideas that shaped his life and work, and turns each one into a lesson you can use today.

It covers why great work comes from loving what you do, how a calligraphy class he sat in on after dropping out ended up shaping the first Macintosh, why real focus means saying no to good ideas, the fence his father taught him to finish properly, why "real artists ship", and how being forced out of Apple in 1985 led to NeXT, Pixar and his return.

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:57 Love the work 3:30 Connect the dots 6:06 Focus 9:08 Question the rules 11:52 Craft 13:39 Start again 16:20 Stay hungry

Style: calm, slow-paced narration over cinematic nature scenery, with word-by-word captions burned in and a still photo of Steve Jobs. The narration speaks about him in the third person and does not imitate his voice. No music.

Third-party materials (non-exclusive, included under their own licences): the photo of Steve Jobs is "Steve Jobs Speaks At WWDC07" by Ben Stanfield, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cut out from the original. Keep this credit in the description wherever the video is published. The scenery footage is from Mixkit under the Mixkit Stock Video Free License. Everything else (script, narration, captions, design and edit) is original and licensed exclusively to the buyer.