How serendipitous. A friend of mine sent an article that contained a link to the very story I had been wracking my brain to recall for some time.
It’s about a college student who drops out, but chooses to follow his whimsy and takes the odd class in calligraphy. He never finishes college. Years later, however, all that time spent learning about the intricacies of script and type pays off. The dropout helps create the world’s first typography friendly computer, the Macintosh. If you haven’t guessed, the dropout is Steve Jobs. He tells the rest of the story in his commencement speech at Stanford: “You’ve got to find what you love.”
It’s a post for another day, but I just love stories that demonstrate the importance of going with your gut and pursuing your interests, despite conventional wisdom. Heck, if I had followed the CW, I’d be a financial planner now. And I’ll bet somewhere out there a financial planner is wishing she’d pursued creative writing…
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