A Little Weekend Inspiration
I was on the road and so unfortunately did not get around to saying anything about the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death. Here’s a video that captures why I have so much admiration for him.
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I was on the road and so unfortunately did not get around to saying anything about the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’s death. Here’s a video that captures why I have so much admiration for him.
7 Comments to “A Little Weekend Inspiration”
A real hero he was, like Howard Roark, as he said world is there for you to change it make your things in it, its yours to put in use and make life out of it.
Wonderful!
He touched on this in his Stanford Commencement address too, when he said “Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
As Ayn Rand quoted the poem by Badger Clark:
“And the world began when I was born
And the world is mine to win.”
Steve Jobs won it.
http://www.arsgratialibertatis.com/the-westerner-by-badger-clark
Thanks for the inspiring video of a courageous achiever.
What I especially like about this video is that it shows Steve Jobs at a younger age. We typically think of successful people when they are at the pinnacle of their career, and they are well-known to the world. The wise old Oracle of Omaha, the Albert Einstein with disheveled hair, the Steve Jobs holding an iPhone on stage, etc. But these are often images of these people *after* their most productive years. I think it helps to remember them toiling away in obscurity at the patent office, in their garage, their dorm room, etc. It can be a great sense of motivation in our own lives.
One thing I would change about his comments is the “no smarter than you are” bit. I would have gone with “no better than you”. Talents come in many forms (intellectual, athletic, creative, etc.), any of which can be tapped for success. Regardless, I don’t think Steve Jobs became successful because of his “smarts” (which is often seen as having a big congenital component).
As if on cue, the following appears on Apple Trailers:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/atlasshruggedpart2/