The first story is about connecting the dots
I dropped out (DO) of Reed College after the first, but then stayed around there until 18 months later, before I really quit. Why do I DO? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young college student who became pregnant by accident and put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so I agreed to free the child since birth by a lawyer and his wife. Unfortunately, as I was born, suddenly they changed their minds because they want a baby girl.
So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the night asking: we have a baby boy whose unexpected, whether you want him? They replied: Of course.My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the adoption agreement. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And, 17 years later I really college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of the money my parents spent on my employees just tuition. After six months, I do not see the benefits. I do not know what I should do with my life and how college was going to help me find it. I've spent all of the money my parents for the rest of their lives. So, I decided to drop out and trust that it's the best. At that time it was scary, but now I think of it as the best decision I ever made.
So DO, I immediately stopped taking mandatory classes that I was not interested and started attending to my liking. The days were not always pleasant. I did not have a dorm room, so passengers sleeping on the floor of my friends. I return the bottle of Coca-Cola to the 5 ¢ deposits to buy food. I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get a good meal at the Hare Krishna temple. I enjoyed it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time was probably the best in the U.S. in terms of calligraphy. Throughout the campus every poster, labels, and instructions written beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and did not have to take the normal classes. I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn. I learned the types of serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between word combinations and tips makes great typography great. All of that is a flavor combination of beauty, history and art that can not be captured through science.It's amazing.When it did not look calligraphy benefits for the life of me. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came rewarding. Mac was the first computer bertipografi beautiful. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had a lot of letters that various forms and proportions. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them.
If I had never dropped out, I do not calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course, it is impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. However, ten years later things became clear. Once again, you will not be able to assemble a point with forward; You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in the future. You have to trust your gut, destiny, life, karma, or whatever other term. This approach is effective and makes a lot of difference in my life.
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