A Coach's Diary

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” - Steve Jobs I enjoy a good commencement speech, and one of my favorites was Steve Jobs's at Stanford i n 2005. Jobs tells a story about how he dropped out of Reed College because it was expensive and he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life. Instead of spending a lot of his parents' money on college classes that he didn’t know what to do with, he dropped in on classes that he enjoyed, like a calligraphy class that offered the best calligraphy instruction in the country. He said taking calligraphy classes taught him about fonts, spacing, and other typography concepts that he put into the design of the Mac computer. Jobs also said it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward. He said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust th...

“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 ev...