If you're "hungry" and "foolish," you are willing to learn. So Jobs was telling people always be willing to learn new things. In this case some people might call you foolish but Providence will prove that it pays to stay foolish. Here I humbly beg to differ from an interpretation of stay foolish that we should be ready to learn more because interpretation of stay hungry naturally includes this thought.
The opposite of being foolish is being smart. And being smart usually means you know everything. Being foolish is kind of "not knowing everything" and still willing to learn.
Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What does the phrase "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish" mean? Ask Question. Needless to say, there has to be some limitations to this and only you would know what they are. Personally, I have been blessed to have tried and learnt a lot along the way with some successes and some not.
The above is my interpretation of what the phrase means but in an interview for the Guardian, Brand shares his thoughts behind it:. The frame of mind of the young hitchhiker is one of the freest frames of mind there is. Every word or phrase is open to interpretation on your skill, knowledge, situation, and an array of other variables.
To Grow. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college.
But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later. 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.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started?
Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.
When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.
I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did.
The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. Stay Foolish.
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