Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

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This line comes from the same Stanford speech, delivered a year after Jobs's first cancer diagnosis. The context is essential: he was not speaking abstractly about mortality but from a recent, concrete encounter with it.

The warning is specific. Living someone else's life rarely feels like a dramatic surrender — it happens gradually, through defaults accepted and expectations met. Naming time as the scarce resource turns an abstract question about purpose into a practical one about allocation.