Bob Myers - Connecting the Dots

“Steve Jobs has a really good quote.  It says that you cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking back.”

In the video below, Golden State Warriors GM Bob Myers began talking about his success with Warriors by referencing the above Steve Jobs quote and how each stop along his journey has helped prepare him for the position his is in now.

While we have goals for our teams and our careers, we often look up and our realities our different than planned.  All we can really do is show up, work hard, be persistent, and have faith that our dots are connecting in a way that one day we will be grateful for.

He also talked about the culture of the Warriors and how important it is to have people around you who are passionate and deeply care about basketball.

From Forbes:

It simple terms:  Trust Yourself.  Trust yourself to think big, make a difference and have an impact in everything you do every day for the betterment of a healthier whole.  You can’t do this alone.   Steve Job’s gift was that he trusted himself enough to navigate his life’s journey in the face of tremendous adversity and along the way he created wealth and opportunities through the resources that only great relationships can bring.

Thank you, Steve Jobs for trusting yourself enough to connect dots that didn’t exist to change the world.  

The video below is Steve Jobs talking about how he is able to look back now at how all of his dots connected at the 2005 Stanford Commencement.

The video below is the speech in its entirety: