Benefits Of Failure

A variety of tactics are employed when delivering a speech and the speaker’s purpose is accommodated by their method. The emotion and inflection in Steve Jobs’ voice as he relays his past experiences provokes an argument about the future and the past. By passing on his anecdotes and previous experiences, the speaker solidifies his credibility as a representative of what is achievable with effort and determination.

Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, addressed a speech at the Commencement at Stanford University. “You’ve got to find what you love,” he said to point out the main reason for his speech. Jobs was addressing to the students at Stanford, but he is really addressing to students at every colleges and universities. He point out three different stories to engage the listeners/readers. The three stories are the major points of his life. He was addressing them to show his listeners/readers that there is a way for anything even if you are struggling. It is effective, because as a reader; I find Jobs’ speech incredibly inspiring. Jobs uses three different stories that have a huge impact in his life. These three stories point out the strategies that he used to gain the listener/reader’s attention.

Steve Jobs focuses his speech on how one can be successful by doing what makes an individual happy even if it contradicts the intended

In his 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University, Steve Jobs makes three major claims that he uses to send off this generation of college grads. His first claim is about connecting the dots of our decisions and how we can only see the good that comes from them in the future. Jobs’ second claim is about love and how no matter what we're doing it must be what we love . His final claim is about death, and how no one wants to die even if they want to go to heaven.

Steve Jobs and JK Rowling are both very successful people that have overcome tremendous difficulties. Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford focused on three stories. The first story’s topic being connecting the dots, this refers to the idea that no matter what happens one must trust that they can look in the past and connect all the dots to where they are currently. Everything that one does leads up to where they are currently and one must trust themselves, it is that concept that Steve refers to when he says connecting the dots. Steve then moves onto the topic of love and loss. Steve was a person who, fortunately, found what he loved doing at a very early age. Steve also unfortunately encountered various problems which led to several losses. Steve ends his speech on the idea that one should live everyday like it is their last alive. JK Rowling has the subjects that failure has benefits and imagination can be used to sympathize as well as manipulate. Comparing both commencement speeches Steve Jobs delivered his message the most effectively using rhetoric. Both speakers include their history with struggles that they overcame, this demonstrates ethos which established their credibility. Steve Jobs and JK Rowling are both known to be incredibly successful and do to this fact they are already credible, but both went further to explain how they got to where they are now. The main difference noticeable is that Steve Jobs states “The first story is about connecting the dots

Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple, Pixar, and NeXT says, “The only way to do great work is to love what you do” during the June 12, 2005, Stanford University commencement address. Jobs gives a speech about his life and the hardships he experienced to further motivate the college graduates to reach their dreams by doing what they love and to succeed even as they get knocked down. Jobs tells the audience. “Your time is limited,” meaning that, when doing something they love, they must keep at it because time is of the essence, and life is too short to hate doing whatever they do or are going to do every day. Taking the audience through the events of his life, Jobs speaks with a humorous and hopeful tone. Steve Jobs successfully

On his commencement speech to Stanford students on June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple computers and PIXAR animations, used carefully crafted inspirational anecdotes and rhetorical devices like ethos and pathos to move his audience to explore, follow their dream and do what they love no matter the odds.

Rejection. Success: The J. K. Rowling Story, 2015). Still, she kept persevering until she had another unfortunate event during the work of her first book. During her divorce she had made a very famous quote that stated "If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. " She had also said "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live," after the death of her mother (J.K. Rowling biography,

Joanne Rowling delivered her speech, The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, on June 5, 2008 as a commencement address at Harvard. This speech was inspiring to so many people around the world that in 2015 J.K. published her speech as the book Very Good Lives:The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination.

Hundreds of students, parents, and faculty members gathered and created an audience to witness J.K Rowling’s speech at Harvard University in 2008. J.K Rowling is a well-known author, famous for her Harry Potter book series, and much more. Rowling’s speech was well thought out, and delivered excellently, with three main points she addresses throughout the speech. The three points being: failure can lead a person to success, never give up hope on your dreams and aspirations, and lastly Rowling emphasizes the importance of imagination. Sometimes we fail to see that the obstacles in our life help shape the road to our success in the future, and Rowling points out to us that failures and obstacles is what helped us become successful , and to never ignore that.

“It turned out that being fired from Apple was the best thing that could have happened to me,” said Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a successful, college dropout. In his speech How to Live Before You Die he explains his journey to success. Steve gave his speech to the graduating class of 2005 from Stanford College. Throughout his speech, he uses trust, emotion, and facts to persuade the grads to find what they love and pursuit it.

Steve Job’s commencement speech in 2005 at Stanford University, which is one of the best university in our country was very memorable and inspiring for Stanford graduates and also for audience listening to speech. In his speech, Jobs inspires students and audience to pursue their dreams and always to follow their heart no matter what even though things don’t always go according to plan and never give up. Steve Job is mainly known for his contributions in the technological world but along with that he is also recognized for his world-renowned presentations. Jobs’ simplicity in delivery and extensive use of rhetoric makes his speech effective and comparable to speeches of famous narrators. In this commencement speech, Jobs uses simplicity in the structure of his speech along with the use of rhetoric such as ethos and pathos besides usage of personal stories to make this speech effective in inspiring his audience and making it memorable.

The speech given by Obama, and the speech given by Steve Jobs, we're both very effective on the message they were trying to convey. They both didn't, however, try to convince people of something. The Obama speech did a great job of convincing why his party is better, and did a great job using rhetorical devices such as pathos, ethos, and logos. The Steve Jobs speech was written as a starting of life speech for the next generation students from Stanford. They are both amazing speeches, but both weren't using the rhetorical devices to convince people of anything. They both did use them, just not in the same way.

I consider Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 to be one of the most effective speeches. He uses mechanics of speech to craft a well-rounded speech that is crowned by his use of rhetorical devices. Jobs gives relevant and fundamental knowledge of his life and experiences with his rhetorical approach. In his speech to the Stanford’s graduation class, he tells different stories of love, loss, discovery and difficulty he faced in his life to encourage new graduates as they continue to mature in life. He encourages students to pursue their dreams and not be discouraged by failures they might experience in life.

In 2008, author J.K. Rowling wrote and gave a commencement speech to the graduating class of Harvard University. Rowling aptly named the speech “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”. In this speech Rowling tries to convey the message that failing can be beneficial or an individual and that people should not be afraid to use their imagination. Rowling begins the speech with a reflection on what went through her mind while writing the speech and how the process affected her. During this time Rowling asked herself what she wished she had known at her graduation and came up with the two main ideas of this speech; the merits of failure and significance of imagination. Rowling explains the benefits of failure by using her own personal failure of living in poverty with her daughter and what that failure taught her. For the significance of imagination, Rowling describes it not in terms of how it helped her out of poverty, but of how it opens up people to the world and other individuals around them.