{"id":434,"date":"2010-10-14T01:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T09:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2021-09-09T08:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:14:31","slug":"connecting-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/14\/connecting-the-dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the dots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many months ago I found myself dealing with a fork in my life path and during a walk through a street in Emeryville, CA. I came across the following message on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What would you follow if there were no lines on your road?&#8221;<br>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrislattanzio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Lattanzio<\/a> 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made a note of that message and continued walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days after the Emeryville, CA. encounter, I came across the following video of Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Jobs&#039; 2005 Stanford Commencement Address\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UF8uR6Z6KLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You cannot connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect the dots looking backwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this day both the message and the video add perspective as I move through life both artistically and professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope they can be of help to you as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many months ago I found myself dealing with a fork in my life path and during a walk through a street in Emeryville, CA. I came across the following message on the ground. &#8220;What would you follow if there were no lines on your road?&#8221;&#8211; Chris Lattanzio 2007 I made a note of that message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[252,254,251,253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}