It’s funny, both the author and I have watched Jobs’ commencement address, but it’s as if we had watched two completely different speeches. I can’t remember a single moment that I interpreted as some cheesy “do this and you will be successful, like I am” recommendation. To me it’s a speech about a life philosophy, and has very little to do with “success” in the shallow sense. It doesn’t inspire me to try to become Steve Jobs, it inspires me to try to become… me. If anything a key takeaway for me is kind of the opposite; that it doesn’t matter if other people think I’m “successful”.