See the bullet points behind Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford speech, plus new video

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Steve Jobs Stanford commencement. Photograph by Linda A. Cicero. Courtesy Stanford University.

Today the Steve Jobs Archive is commemorating the 20th anniversary of Jobs’ famous commencement address to the 2005 graduating class at Stanford University. A newly enhanced video version of the speech has been released alongside a digital exhibit containing artifacts, including Jobs’ own personal bullet points of speech ideas.

‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’ is new digital exhibit from Steve Jobs Archive

The Steve Jobs Archive just launched a new digital exhibit titled “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish,” inspired by Jobs’ famous words in his Stanford commencement speech.

Jobs’ speech has been viewed over 120 million times across various platforms, making it one of the most-watched graduation addresses ever.

Video of the speech has been newly enhanced and is now available in 1080p HD. It runs just under 15 minutes long.

Additionally, on the exhibit website you’ll find various other details about Jobs’ address and related artifacts.

One artifact is an email shared by Apple that Jobs sent to himself containing ideas for the speech in bullet point form.

You can find the full email contents in text below:

Full text of Steve Jobs’ emailed speech ideas

This is the closest I’ve ever come to graduating from college

they’ve asked me to say a few things today that you can learn from
I should be learning from you

1. Habits are very powerful things

20 years – now until you’re 42
meditate 20 minutes a day
walk to work (30 minutes × 2 = 1 hour/day × 5 days/week
= 250/yr × 20 years = 5000hrs / 10 hours per day = 500 days = >1 year

2. You are what you eat