Speaking Snack #9 - Deconstructing speeches About Passion

In 2005, Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech at Stanford University which has been seen 39 million times and has become the anthem for passion all over the world. 10 years after his speech, Terry Trespicio gave a TedTalk entitled, "Stop searching for your passion". Her speech has since been viewed over 6 million times and despite being a no-name, self-employed writer and consultant, Terry believed her speech did so well because following your passion was great in theory, but it's actually really hard to execute and trying to do it actually makes us feel worse about ourselves not better. In this speaking snack, we analyze why both speeches did so well, Steve Jobs with his famous commencement speech in Stanford University as well as Terry's 2015 TedTalk on the same theme.

Watch Steve Jobs' speech here and Terri's TedTalk here.