"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. [...]

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. [...]

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish."

This is a little back dated, but my tutor was just having one of those conversations again during tuition where he tells me about a lot of things he had learnt and I would've otherwise never known if it weren't for him. He was talking about Steve Jobs as well and he told me to watch his speech at the Stanford commencement. It has suddenly hit me how much of a genius Steve Jobs is. He definitely has a lot we could learn from. I reckon I'd be watching this video a few more times down the road, just to gently remind myself of the many things he had touched on in his speech.

"If you change a person's way of life, you're good. If you change two people's way of life, you're great. But if you change almost the entire world's way of life, you're something special and amazing."