For 33 years Steve Jobs will look at himself…

For 33 years Steve Jobs will look at himself in the mirror each morning and ask himself if that day was the last day of his life whether he would be happy with what he was going to do.

— from Time

In the book

The single most useful thing I know about a whole life is the saying that the time is always ripe to do what is right; whatever you have been putting off — the apology, the visit, the beginning — the right hour is the one you are in. Borrow, too, the habit that steadied Steve Jobs for decades: look in the mirror each morning and ask whether, if today were your last, you would want to spend it the way you are about to. And here is the tender secret underneath all the urgency, from a child's story I never forgot: it is the time you have wasted on your rose that makes your rose so important. — Time

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