Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address: Inspiring :)

1. Connect the dots.  You have to trust that the dots will connect down the road.

2. You've got to find what you love.

3. "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right."

4. "Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

5. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

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NOTES:

Characters:
• Valet
• Garcin: He is in hell because he slept around with other women and did not pay much attention to his wife.
• Estelle: She killed/aborted her baby? Had interest in many men.
• Inez: She is a lesbian and was a very cruel person.

Hell:
• The room itself
• People are hell
• There is no physical torture, but the people give each other a hard time, they are each other’s hell.
• It is a room full of furniture and all door are locked
• No sleeping
• Pure light

The outside world:
• Each character could see what people in their past are doing on earth. It is part of the torture. They can see but cannot say anything.
• They suffer in silence while seeing the other person’s actions and how they talk about them (the dead ones).

Lust:
• Estelle desires Garcin.
• They are planning to make love in front of Inez.
• Inez convinces Garcin not to. She tells him that Estelle is lying to him and only telling him what he want to hear and not the truth.
• They have various arguments
• Estelle and Garcin try to escape and kick Inez out, but that fails.


Thoughts:
• Light = awareness
• Contradictory: light in a room where no one is able to escape. How does the light portray awareness and knowledge in a place where people are damned?
• Can the characters really see what is going on in the world even though they are in hell?


TEXT QUESTIONS:


1.Think about the place you have chosen as your hell. Does it look ordinary and bourgeois, like Sartre's drawing room, or is it equipped with literal instruments of torture like Dante's Inferno? Can the mind be in hell in a beautiful place? Is there a way to find peace in a hellish physical environment? Enter Sartre's space more fully and imagine how it would feel to live there endlessly, night and day:
The hell I have chosen is similar to Dante’s inferno. It is a place without any disguise. I believe the mind can be in hell in a beautiful place. The mind works in such ways that it can easily ruin the mood you are in with the constant thinking it does. It can be your worst enemy no matter if you are in the most beautiful place on earth. Just like you can find hell in a beautiful place you can find peace in a hellish place. You use the mind to your advantage. Sartre’s space seems like a fancy place to be in. If I was stuck in that room I would find a way to keep myself sane though I do not guarantee staying sane.

2.Could hell be described as too much of anything without a break? Are variety, moderation and balance instruments we use to keep us from boiling in any inferno of excess,' whether it be cheesecake or ravenous sex?
Hell can be described as too much of something without a break. I believe it is too much suffering without a break, too much burning without a break, etc. Hell is definitely a place in which everything happens without a break.

3.How does Sartre create a sense of place through dialogue? Can you imagine what it feels like to stay awake all the time with the lights on with no hope of leaving a specific place? How does GARCIN react to this hell? How could you twist your daily activities around so that everyday habits become hell? Is there a pattern of circumstances that reinforces the experience of hell?

Sartre allows the reader to experience the place by the way Garcin is speaking and asking questions frantically. You get a sense that the place is torture itself. Lately I have not gotten much sleep. When this happens my eyes feel swollen, I am bit grumpy and not in the mood for many things. That alone is hell I do not know what not sleeping at all would be called. Daily activities like going to certain classes everyday, or doing chores, or waking up early or doing homework could easily be interpreted as hell. I have heard conversations in which I hear that a certain class was hell or a test or final was hell etc. When calling something hell people mean that the work or situation was a drag, time consuming, difficult, uncomfortable, etc.