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What does Steve Jobs mean when he says, " you cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards "?

What does Steve Jobs mean when he says, " you cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards "?

By saying " You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards", he wants to make he wants to make it clear all of that our success and failures rely on how we learn lessons from our past experience. Life is full of suspense and anything can happen at any time. Everyone has been at failure once in a lifetime. Learning from the failures and building up ourselves helps to get success in future. Taking his example, he had also faced a lot of failures in his life. He was dumped by his girlfriend. He also fell together job at McKinsey. He wasted his four previous years without getting support from anyone. But he became successful at last. It proves that in our life, we shouldn't be worried about our failure. Instead we should learn from it because one day all the dots (our experience) will be connected to bring something great.

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