Chapters 1 & 2
Steve Jobs didn't believe in looking forward in order to connect the dots in his life, but this way of thinking has never let him down.
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"Again, 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. "
Steve Jobs did not stay sad after he lost his business, instead, he felt less stressed, without pressure, like he could start over.
Hint: He kind of felt like a beginner again
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again,
The most serious mistake you can make in the library according to Bud
What is to fall asleep and drool in the books, making the pages stick together
Steve Jobs believes that " You've got to find what you love."
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"During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. "
"I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. "
Steve Jobs was not a college drop out, while in college, he used his time to learn something new.
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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 I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.
Steve Jobs' mother did not give him up for adoption without any particular desires or plans for the type of parents who would adopt him.
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"It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. "
While in college, Steve Jobs had friends that he could rely on during a difficult time in his life.
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It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms,
Steve Jobs' biological and adoptive parent came to an agreement.
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"She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. "
Steve Jobs figured out ways to survive in order to eat as a broke and hungry college student.
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I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple.
Later on in life, Jobs used what he learned in calligraphy class when he was designing the first Mac.
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"I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac."
Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to Steve Jobs.
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The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.