Absolute creativity and genius are perhaps the two words that come to mind when I think of Steve Jobs, they say that in his own way, he was the inventor of the 21st century, and it’s not just a metaphor.
The way we work, communicate and maintain relationships with today’s world is largely due to this genius.
- He was very successful in business from an early age.
- His professional career has been methodical from an early age.
- Perhaps that’s why he has always said that he was not impressed by success or money.
- Nor were they the main reason he continued to work.
However, it made a dream come true. A dream swept away by old ideas and big shareholder meetings. But Jobs never lost his visionary spirit. He never gave up.
Like other people with a lot of creativity, Steve Jobs has managed his whole life between success and frustration, among a new project?What no one had ever thought before? And the quest for a more transcendent life that made history.
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955, his biological parents were two students who abandoned him for adoption since he was born.
Fortunately, little Steve was adopted by a family he still considered his true parents and who had encouraged and supported him in everything since he was a child.
He attended school in California and then moved to Portland to begin his college studies. His time at Reed College was characterized by his excellent qualities in terms of potential, which contrasted with his rebellion and disinterest.
In 1974, Steve Jobs went to India in search of a transcendental meaning for his life and spent time at Neem Karoli Baba’s Ashram in Kainchi.
He studied Buddhism at a Zen center in Los Altos in the 1970s and also maintained a close friendship with his Zen master, a lifelong friendship.
His biographers claim that Zen Buddhism has marked his whole life and work. In 2005, at jobs’ conference at the Stanford graduation ceremony, he said:
“For 33 years, I looked in the mirror every morning and thought, ‘If today was my last day, would I like to do what I’m going to do today? And the answer was? “No? For several days in a row; so I needed to change something. Remembering that we are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that we have something to lose. You are already naked. Is there no reason not to continue your heart ?.
In the 1970s, Steve Jobs also joined his country’s anti-cultural movement, and it was during this time that he experimented with psychedelics. He used to say that this experience with drugs was fundamental to the perspective of his own life and his vision of the future.
His first computer job was at Atari, where he met Steve Wozniak, the COMPUTER technician who would later become Apple’s co-founder. They were a perfect couple.
In this way, Wozniak’s genius as an engineer found in Jobs the entrepreneurial talent needed to create the project that would later become an empire.
At the time they worked for Atari, computers were reserved for the exclusive use of large companies and cost more than a house. Wozniak built the first personal computer because he wanted to have one at home. That’s where it all started.
Two visionaries who began selling the first personal computers in the garage of Steve Jobs’ parents’ house and, despite the separation after a while, managed to do amazing things together.
“Revolutionary geniuses are not only the ones who build something different, but those who also manage to sell it. “Steve Wozniak?
In the following years, Apple computers were developed in the market and the purchase of a personal computer became increasingly necessary. In this way, Apple grew a lot and things got complicated for Jobs.
In 1984 they designed the first Macintosh, an invention that marked a before and after in home computing, but which they did not know how to market. Apple had grown up and the board did not share Jobs’ vision or passion.
They believed that Jobs’ brilliant gifts of creativity and business acumen were hampered by his demanding and perfectionist character.
Like all the great geniuses who changed history, Steve Jobs needed a team that worked with the same passion, vision and transcendent sense that he had.
Finally, in 1985, Wozniak left Apple and, a year later, Steve Jobs was removed from his managerial position and ran out of words or voted in his own company. Therefore, Jobs left Apple to pursue his professional adventure alone.
He created The Next Company and made a foray into Pixar, a company that produces computer graphics films. His time at Pixar gave Jobs great success and respect for his work.
Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, at a time when Microsoft was technologically outpervising the company. Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy, but Jobs’ return gave him a new direction.
He canceled all ongoing projects and took back control of his company, so Steve Jobs made history again.
Jobs then designed a new generation of innovative products, such as iPod, iPad and iPhone, and set a standard for portable digital music.
In 2008, iTunes had over six million downloads and more than 200 million iPods sold. In 2010, he introduced the iPad, the tablet system. In 2012, Apple became the world’s most popular company.
In a 2007 interview, Jobs said
“There’s an old Wayne Gretzky date that I love: “I skate as far as the record will go, not as much as I was. “And we’re still trying to do it at Apple, and we always will?.
Perfectionist, passionate and visionary. They were his angels and demons. His legacy is the result of a passion he never put up for sale.
In 2003, Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which caused him many health problems, yet he continued to work until 2009, when a disease forced him to quit his job.
He died in 2011, at the age of 56. Steve Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave in Palo Alto, California.
The slogan? Think Differently? It was created when Steve Jobs took over Apple, his company.
“It’s for the crazy, for the outcasts, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pins in the square holes, for those who see things differently. They don’t like rules and they don’t respect the status quo. You can quote them, agree with them, glorify them or defame them, but you can’t ignore them. Why do things change, lead the human race?