the story of steve jobs, 3 stories with quotes of Steve Jobs

STEVE JOBS

There are three stories from Steve Jobs

The first story from Steve Jobs is connecting the dots

 Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months. It started before  he was born. His biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put him up for adoption. She felt very strongly that Steve  should be adopted by college graduates. But, apparently, they will addopting a baby girl not a baby boy.

And 17 years later he did go to college. But he naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of his working-class parents' savings were being spent on his college tuition. After six months, he couldn't see the value in it. So Steve decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. The minute he dropped out he could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest him, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because he had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, he decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in his life. But 10 years later, when they  were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to him. And they designed it all into the Mac.

The second story is about Love and Loss

Woz and Steve started Apple in Steve  parents' garage when he was 20. they worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. they had just released their finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and he had just turned 30. And then he got fired. How can Steve get fired from a company he started? Well, as Apple grew they hired someone who he thought was very talented to run the company with him, and for the first year or so things went well. But then their visions of the future began to diverge and eventually they had a falling out.
The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. he had been rejected, but he was still in love. And so he decided to start over.
he didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to him. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.
During the next five years, Steve started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become his  wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, he returned to Apple, and the technology they developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and he have a wonderful family together.

The third story from Steve Jobs is about death
When he was 17, he read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, he have looked in the mirror every morning and asked himself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, he know he need to change something.
About a year ago he was diagnosed with cancer. he had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. He didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told him this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that he should expect to live no longer than three to six months.
He lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening he had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down his throat, through his stomach and into his intestines, put a needle into his pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. he was sedated, but his wife, who was there, told him that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. he had the surgery and he fine now.
He make a conclude that:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.

Quote from Steve Jobs

·         you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

·         Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. 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. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle

·         If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

·         Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life

·         Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition