How to Live Before You Die Exercise : Summary and Question Answers
How To Live Before You Die Understanding the text Answer the following questions. a. What is the story about Steve Jobs’ birth? Steve Jobs was given birth by an unwed college graduate student. She decided to put her baby for adoption during her pregnancy. She wanted her baby to be adopted by an educated family. Initially, a lawyer’s family was ready to adopted Steve Jobs. But when he was born the lawyer’s family insisted to adopt him as they had changed their minds to adopt a girl. Later a mechanic named Paul Jobs, and his wife, Clara Jobs adopted him with a promise that one day they would sent him in college to study. b. What does he mean when he says, “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards”? By saying “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards”, he wants to make it clear to all of us that our success and failures rely on how we learn lessons from our past experience. Life is full of suspenses …