Stay hunger. Stay foolish. And enjoy exploring what you don't yet know!

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
—Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, speaking to Stanford’s graduating class twenty years ago.

Back then, those words helped me take my decisions less seriously.
And I needed that. The world felt vast and full of possibilities, but I struggled to know where to focus.

Now, in my 50s, they help me take decisions more seriously.
Life feels surprisingly spacious, with room to follow what genuinely matters.
But with friends who now exist only in memory, and the quiet reality of injuries that won’t recover, it also feels more precious.

Lately, I’ve been leaning into new parts of the work I love: coaching, therapy, teaching.
I’m in a three-year advanced trauma training and taking an online clinical hypnosis course that runs from midnight to 4 a.m.
Many classmates are a generation younger. It’s deeply meaningful.

I used to take these courses hoping to find the answers that would make me better at what I do.
Now I take them because staying genuinely curious about the messy, complicated business of being human might be the most helpful thing I can offer.
A few years older, it’s easier to accept the mess.

Jobs ended with: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
These days, I’d add: “And enjoy exploring what you don’t yet know.”

(Steve Jobs’ speech: https://lnkd.in/gVS7r4ac)