Steve Jobs's Speech 'You've Got to Find What You Love'

Speeches throughout history have been a place where propaganda has been seen evidently. The Steve Jobs Speech, “You’ve Got to find what you Love”, posted by Stanford University, shows a different type of propaganda. This speech has an inspirational and innovative touch to it that allows the audience to receive different feelings all throughout the speech. In short, it is a man’s attempt to convince the reader of the difficult topic of followings ones heart.

The speech contains a propaganda technique called “name calling”. This is when the speaker links a person or idea to a negative symbol. This may seem like an odd choice in an inspirational speech, but it messes with the reader’s emotions and that is the main reason for it. The technique is first seen at the beginning of the speech. Steve Jobs explains how he attended a college named Reed College. He then later states, “I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life…I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would be OK.” Dropping out of college is looked at as a bad thing. Steve Jobs wants the listener to see that bad things do happen in life. Sometimes chances have to be taken. If college is not the right direction for your passion, then do not do it. This chance that he took allowed him to start taking classes that he wanted to take, not ones that he was forced to take. He was finally able to dive into classes that pursued his passion. Taking these classes allowed him to become one of the greatest marketing experts of all time. This name calling is a way for the listener to understand this. Bad things happen in life. Since he made this relationship it helps the listener understand that following their h...

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...meone else’s life.” The listener then understands the point that he is trying to make. Life is short. You have to live your own life in order to get the fullest out of it. Being on the bandwagon is never going to get you to your passion. Your passion should be what you live for. The statements that Steve Jobs made gave the listener a pristine idea on the truth. That is what makes this speech so influential.

Steve Jobs uses simple examples to point to the listener that doing what you love is more important than anything else. The speech pulls at all different parts of human emotions: sadness, disgust, and even fear. The many different propaganda techniques used are what create these emotions. These techniques were sometimes even twisted for the good of the speech. That all wrapped together creates one of the greatest speeches of all time. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.