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figure out

An idiom that means to study to understand or find a solution; to deduce.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

find out

An idiomatic expression that means to discover (in this context).

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.

foolish

If someone's behavior or judgment is foolish, it is not sensible and shows a lack of good judgment.

"Stay hungry, stay foolish." In this context, foolish might contain a component of innocence, but what Steve Jobs means is trust your own intuition, even if someone else judges it as not sensible.