Connecting the dots
Put up for adoption
Promised to send steve through college
Saw parents life savings going to college which he thought was not useful in anyway
Dropped out and started attending classes which he thought was interesting like calligraphy. At the time it did not help him nor could he see how it would help him in the future but when he developed apple he put in for the first time beautiful typefaces with proper spaces. This was copied by windows later so it is possible that good looking fonts would have probably taken a lot of time to come in to personal computing if steve jobs had not taken up that calligraphy class.
Love and loss
Fired from own company. Very publicized event. He tried to get back into the company. Whatever he had worked for had been taken away. But he realized he still loved what he did. During the next 5 years he founded pixar, next and married. Apple bought next. He went back to apple. He went on beuase he loved what he did. The only way to be satisfied is to do what yo believe is great work and to do great work is to love what you do. Keep looking don’t settle . it gets better keep
Death
If tday were the last day of my life will I be doing what I am doing.
Remembering that you are going to do die is the best way to avoid the trap to thinking you have something to lose.
Was diagnosed with cancer. 3-6 montsh most. Get everything settled. No one wants to die. Yet death is the destination we all share. No one has escaped it. That is as it should be because death is the single best invention of life. Its lifes change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. You tme is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma and other people’s limitations and opinions. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Stewart brant grant? Whole earth catalogue
