Steve Jobs Secrets of Life
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Transcript: the thing i would say is when you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much try to have a nice family live have fun save a little money
but life that's a very limited life life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact
and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you
and you can change it you can influence it you can you can build your own things that other people can use and the minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will you know if you push in something will pop out the other side that you can you can change it you can mold it
um that's maybe the most important thing is to shake off this uh this uh erroneous notion that life is is there and you're just gonna live in it
versus embrace it change it improve it make your mark upon it um i think that's very important and however you learn that once you learn it you'll want to change life and make it better because it's kind of messed up in a lot of ways once you learn that you'll never be the same again
Why I really value such interviews because they don't look like commercial stuff, like he's not advertising anything and looks truly sincere.
And it's priceless when you can hear how such a person truly thinks
Steve Jobs on Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI
now I've actually always found something that to be very true which is most people don't get those experiences because they'd never asked
I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help I always call him up I called up this will date me but I called up Bill Hewlett when I was 12 years old and he lived in Palo Alto his number was still in a phonebook and he answered the phone himself you know yes hi I'm Steve Jobs I'm 12 years old I'm a student in high school and I want to build a frequency counter and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have and he laughed and he gave me the spare parts to build his frequency counter and he gave me a job that summer in Hewlett Packard working on the assembly line putting nuts and bolts together on frequency counters he got me a job in the place that built him and I was in heaven
and I've never found anyone who said no or hung up the phone when I call I just asked and when people ask me I try to be as responsive to pay that that debt of gratitude back most people never pick up the phone and call most people never ask and that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them you got it you got to act and you've got to be willing to fail you've got to be willing to crash and burn you know with people on the phone with starting a company with whatever if you're afraid of failing you won't get very far