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Code Review Steve Jobs has become immortal upon his death. His
wonderful creations, his passion and his uncanny drive- all have made
him a superstar reigning in stratospheric heights. Jobs showed an
"unconventional" path to life. The urge to run by the
heart, instead of the brain. Chase after what the heart desires,
instead of conventional establishment. This is THE difference, the
"Road Not Taken" approach of Jobs. In Job's own words,
"....Don't be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results
of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions
drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what
you truly want to become. Everything else in secondary."
It
takes radical determination, it takes a hell of a courage to come out
of comfort zone, come out of convention. It takes brimming tenacity
of mind to pursue the inner-most urge and stick to it. You should be
dead serious to stick to that hardcore urge. It's like follow "What
the Heart Says", instead of convention, or establishment tells
you to. He was so radical, he made his own rules. He judged the world
in binary terms. Products are "insanely great" or "shit",
one is facing death from cancer or "cured", subordinates
are geniuses or "bozos", indispensable or no longer
relevant. His outrageous comment about Microsoft, in the
tele-documentary "Triumph of the Nerds", was, "The
only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste......I have a
problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate
products". This statement is quintessential Jobs: arrogant,
frank, insightful and perhaps more than half right, though brutally
overstated. One of NeXT executive commented, "Being around Steve
is a reality distortion." It is this Radical Mind that created
the difference- in his own life and in his works.
His
trademark is intensity, intuition-driven and radicalism. He had
vision, he had the insight to exercise "think different"
approach, which contributed to put Apple's designs a head above the
competition. He was intensely focused to his vision. In pursuing his
heart's urge, he was relentless. "....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....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."
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