Namasthe! Good Morning….. Thought for the day: Hope has the quality of as spider web, incredible strength rising out of tiny strands. Cling to the rope of Hope. 21 Life Lessons from Steve Jobs 1. Skate to Where the Puck is Going to Be 2. Accentuate the Positive 3. Learn from Others 4. Start Early 5. College is Important… Ready to Redefine Success? Steve Jobs will be remembered as a digital visionary — the man who brought poetry to the microchip. But before he was a legend, he was a person.We can’t all be Steve Jobs, but we can all learn from his extraordinary life. 1 Skate to Where the Puck is Going to Be In 2007, Steve Jobs said, “There’s an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. ‘I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.’ And we’ve always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.” Steve’s ability to anticipate future trends helped Apple dominate now-burgeoning markets like digital music sales (through the iPod and iTunes Store). 2 Accentuate the Positive Steve started life out on the wrong foot. He was given up for adoption at birth. Tough break? Young Jobs didn’t think so: he was thankful for his loving adoptive parents — who happened to live in Palo Alto, California (which would eventually become Silicon Valley). 3 Learn from Others In high school, Jobs attended lectures at a small computer technology company called Hewlett-Packard. Before turning 21, Steve had worked for both HP and Atari. He saw what these companies were doing and learned what he wanted to do differently with Apple. 4 Start Early Because Steve was still a sponge-brained teenager when he started working with computers, he learned quickly. It also helps that he started Apple in his early 20’s: when he was still full of energy, fresh ideas, and not yet restrained by a family or career. 5 College is Important… At its best, higher education challenges us to make connections and solve problems. Jobs credits a college calligraphy course for part of the Macintosh’s development: “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.” To be continue ... Happy New Month ………………RICHARD!!!
Posted on: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 08:08:44 +0000
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