I had been rejected, but I was still in love.
And so I decided to start over.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.
And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.