As a Reed College dropout, Jobs started taking calligraphy classes — something he never would have never done if he'd been an enrolled student. But he followed his curiosity, and that turned out to be pivotal for the future of technology: "If I had never dropped out," Jobs said, "I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do."
"You can't connect the dots looking forward," he said. "You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
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