Steve Jobs is the most private public persona you’ll ever know.
He keeps his health issues as tightly guarded as his company secrets. But in an uncharacteristically revealing 2005 speech, Jobs shared with Stanford grads his very personal journey to becoming successful: a botched adoption, in which the couple who was going to adopt Jobs changed their minds; his public humiliation at being fired from the company he helped found; a cancer diagnosis that most certainly gave him a death sentence-“three to six months to live,” the doctors told him. He talked candidly about death in that commencement
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