After reading Living to Change the World: The Biography of Jobs 1 No one will remember a person who has nothing to do with his life, and no capital will value a person who will not bring him money. Please pay attention to how often you bite apples, and look at the stock price trend of AAPL (Nasdaq), and you will understand why Steve Jobs is widely remembered and admired here. From the results, we know that a person who leads the trend of the times must have seen the future in advance. He is such a person. What is more commendable is that he combines beautiful things with the pace of science and technology, and at the same time freely perceives the world, he pushes the times forward so delicately. This is probably the most brilliant point in Jobs' philosophy of life.
People born on February 24th are willing to sacrifice their ego to realize their ego, which may be voluntary or out of a hopeless sense of responsibility. If it is because of the former, it must be sacrificed for the value they agree with, and then the happiness of others is their greatest comfort. Throughout the ups and downs of Jobs' career, he always faced the former at the crossroads of aesthetics and practicality without hesitation. In his mind, power and money can be lost, but the beauty can't be reduced. This may be a proof of his excellent point of view, because almost no one will consider the source of the scene and feelings of a computer product buyer when he faces the computer lying in the box at the moment of opening the product package. This is Steve Jobs' specialty. He can't program, but he does have a paranoia of creating beauty that borders on self-abuse. This may be one of the main reasons why all Apple users have worshipped him like believers for decades.
I don't want to say that Jobs is the savior, but I know that he has always been on our side. Anyone who has seen Pixar cartoons will find a noble character that suits them. Words such as dedication, courage, responsibility, courage, sacrifice and love closely connect us with his animated characters. His meditation habits and vegetarianism have become an attempt for us to think about the harmonious coexistence between people, society and nature. He tried to take us into his world, a world belonging to Steve Jobs. Where all the competition and cruel reality will be rendered by the beauty in the dream, and the standard for judging everything is the degree of beauty. He should be a perfectionist and at the same time have dedication. He will bring all the beauty he feels, the beauty that can be aggregated and copied, and the beauty that he absorbs from everything to the world he built. As long as you enter him, you will enjoy the beauty, fill the hole in your heart, and cure fatigue and Jobs' feeling of reading .5438+0000. I don't want to say that Jobs is a rebel, but I know that he is fighting against an ubiquitous order similar to the rule of "Microsoft Empire". He used all his energy to perceive the world and tried to build a Noah's Ark for us in the torrent of science and technology, giving us a brand-new possibility, giving us more choices and a window facing freedom. This is what we need to understand and remember. Such apple lovers are unique.
Anyone who has read Joe's biography will realize the Steve Jobs in your mind. After all, as a successful man, he has too many auras, and there is a real person behind the aura. Whether it's hippie Joe, engineer Joe, inventor Joe, thinker Joe, indifferent Joe, entrepreneur Joe, millionaire Joe or Joe who lives by picking up bottles and cans. The important thing is that there is such a person who was born in. Know yourself from the inside out, see your future, see the direction of progress, attack decisively, stick to your principles, and finally, borrow the Greek outlook on life: this is the real person, a thoughtful, will-oriented, lively and sensitive body; This is the real life, the life span of 60 or 70 years from a croaking childhood to a silent grave. We should make this body as agile, strong, healthy and beautiful as possible, develop this mind and this will in all powerful actions, and decorate this life with all the beauty that fine organs, agile intelligence and heroic and active mind can create and appreciate. I think Joe's life is probably one of such lives.
After reading Living to Change the World: The Biography of Steve Jobs, it is well known that steve paul jobs is an Apple myth. In 2007, he was named the greatest businessman of the year by Fortune magazine. Recently, many publishers have published many biographies of Steve Jobs. Recently, I read "Living to Change the World: The Biography of Jobs" published by CITIC Publishing House. From this book, we can read many legendary stories about him. His life philosophy and wisdom are also of great help to his future growth in society. As the book says, "Steve has a businessman's passion for his goods, an evangelist's passion for preaching the gospel, a fanatic's perseverance to achieve his goal, and a poor child's determination and will to succeed." It is precisely because of Steve's mixed personality that on the one hand, Apple has achieved great success, on the other hand, it has also established many opponents and enemies. "People like Jobs can't be imitated. But we can still learn a lot from him. First of all, he has a pure passion for the electronics industry. This turns all work into desire.
Second, he is a doer. For the goal that he is passionate about and willing to fight for, he always starts to implement it at once, instead of just immersing himself in the imagination of the future. Nolan bushnell, the founder of Artarit, said of Jobs: "When he wants to do something, he gives me a schedule by day and week, not by month or year. I like his style of doing things.
Third, he has the courage to explore the unknown. Jobs and his business partner Woz are willing to try impossible or impossible goals. It is this courage and passion of exploration that can push the whole industry and even the whole human society forward. It was this courage that led Jobs and Woz to finally find Apple.
Fourth, he has the tenacity to stick to his goals. Fifth, he is good at inspiring people around him, so that all the partners in the same team are infected by his enthusiasm for work, so as to share the same interests with him and work together for it. In this regard, bud? Tribble recalled, "His ability is a complex mixture, including the ability to quickly change a bad state, the ability to inspire enthusiasm, and occasionally the creative ability in his mind. His ability is enough to make you lose your normal judgment. " This may be an innate temperament.
Reflections on Living to Change the World: The Biography of Jobs 3 After the birth of Apple's mobile phone and tablet computer, the name Jobs began to become a household name. His appearance has completely changed six industries: personal computer, animated film, music, mobile phone, tablet computer and digital publishing. Such a great success made me interested in his legendary life. During the holiday, I read the biography of Steve Jobs. Through the introduction of this book, I think his great achievements are mainly attributed to his perfectionism and endless flexibility.
I clearly remember one thing in the book: One day, when Apple designer Bill Atkinson was drawing circles and ellipses, he found a clever method to calculate the square root, which was shocking. But Jobs said, "Both circles and ellipses are good, but it would be more perfect if you could draw a beautiful rectangle with rounded corners." Atkinson said that was impossible. So Jobs walked three blocks with Atkinson and found an example like 17. Atkinson was completely convinced. Finally, with the help of Jobs, they worked together to find a way to draw a rectangle with rounded corners quickly.
At that time, the 68000 microprocessor did not support the calculation of square root, but Jobs' pursuit of perfection did not waver at all. He made great efforts to study number theory and made changes for the purpose that the existing technology could not achieve. He asked employees and assistants not to be "rigid, rigid and rigid" and not to be bound by the rules and regulations of the existing technology, but to seek breakthroughs "flexibly, flexibly and flexibly" to build a stage for realizing their dreams.
As we all know, the thin layer of Apple's mobile phone and tablet computer is less than one centimeter, but it has many of the most advanced, fashionable and popular product functions. If the near-harsh perfectionism didn't guide endless flexible practice, there wouldn't be today's revolutionary Apple products, let alone the legendary Jobs.
Behind a successful life, there must be a combination of strong personality and outstanding talent. In Jobs, the firm personality is manifested in this perfectionist spirit of "always imperfect"; The initiator of outstanding talents is the flexibility to realize' infinite possibilities'. Obviously, Jobs is not a god, but he is praised as a god by the world, that is, he perfectly combines' perfection' with' flexibility'. Imagine that only the spirit of perfectionism, without flexible practice, can only be a fantasy; Only flexible practice, without perfectionism, is at best a small improvement on the existing basis. Soon, this small improvement will be barren because of lack of enterprising motivation. Not everyone's life can be as legendary as Jobs, but we can learn something from him that will benefit us for life. Back to our study life, we should embody the spirit of perfectionism and be meticulous in our study: we should not leave any mistakes and never allow the mistakes we made to happen again; Flexibility is everywhere in learning: connecting one's knowledge together in a clever way to gain new knowledge, or solving the same problem in more than one way. ...
Jobs has made indelible contributions to the development of science and the progress of mankind. The whole world is lamenting the untimely death of such talents. This society needs more work. So, from now on, let's work together!
Reflection on living to change the world: biography of Steve Jobs 4. This book tells the story of Jobs' radiant and short life, objectively evaluates Jobs, and presents a real Jobs for readers. The 56-year-old life suddenly disappeared, and he left this world peacefully with his life legend and infinite passion, which is unforgettable and unforgettable. He, Steve Jobs, is an American hero. He has experienced ups and downs, but he still stands. As Hemingway said in The Old Man and the Sea, a man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.
Speaking of Jobs, you will naturally think of the bitten Apple logo. Of course, you will also like the iPod, iPhone and iPad he brought. Anyone who knows Apple knows that every product or system software released by Apple embodies Jobs' painstaking efforts, and only Jobs can make Apple's products so perfect. Throughout the book, what impressed me most was Jobs' personality and his way of evaluating things. His almost paranoid pursuit of simplicity and perfection makes him.
Jobs' unique strength comes from his unique childhood. He was born in Silicon Valley, California, USA, 1955, which happened to be the era of American baby boom. When her mother gave birth to him, she was probably still a girl who was not sensible. In the 1950s, it was disgraceful for single-parent families to choose abortion. As a result, Jobs was adopted by a middle-class family agreement. His adoptive father was a mechanical engineer, and he moved to San Francisco after World War II.
In the environment of Silicon Valley in California, there are many electronic products that can be contacted. Jobs was fascinated by these electronic products, and his doubts about his life experience made him often think about the proposition of life and pursue scientific significance. At the age of 20, he took a partner and they traveled to distant India together. In India at the foot of the Himalayas, he was deeply moved by the lack of material conditions and the firm religious beliefs of monks. He went to pay homage to a Hindu saint, and went all the way down the Yamuna River to his destination, the downstream city of Virundavan, only to find that the saint had passed away. "It was a pilgrimage, but at that time we didn't know where we were going." After recalling this mental journey, Jobs downplayed it.
Later, Jobs went to college and was exposed to Zen, which further changed his life. Make him a vegetarian. He goes to practice Zen almost every week, and the teacher is Japanese. Zen pays attention to abandoning all logical thinking and entering a state of life since since the enlightenment, emphasizing intuition. This is one of the characteristics of Jobs: listening to his inner voice. The special adoption status created Jobs' unique life thought. My trip to India as a teenager and my love for Zen later. All these give him a kind of ideological character that we can't understand, as firm as a certain belief.
Among all the great Silicon Valley entrepreneurial heroes, Jobs will always be a shining star that we can't avoid! There is a simple reason. Without Jobs, today's world would be different. There would be no 1977 Apple2, 1984 Macintosh, 1988 iMac, 200 1 iPod, 2007 iPhone and 20 10 iPad.
Constantly trying and working hard, never giving up his inner pursuit, this is his indomitable tenacity. 1985 Jobs was forced to leave Apple, which he founded, because of disagreement with the management. He was just 30 years old that year, and the blow was devastating for almost anyone. However, he did not sink from there. He pulled himself together, founded NEXT, and later bought Pixar. Although the next company experienced ups and downs, there was not much improvement, but Pixar created the glory of digital animated films. Later, after NEXT was acquired by Apple, he returned to Apple and was ordered to recreate Apple's revival myth. He loves innovation and has unparalleled passion and creativity, which makes him continue to succeed after repeated failures.
Jobs was obviously open-minded about death. When he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told that he had only a few weeks to live, he said that there was nothing like death to concentrate. In a speech at Stanford University in 2005, he said: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die in that place. However, death is the end of our common destiny. No one can escape. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living other people's lives. Don't be trapped by dogma, just live according to the results of others' thinking. Don't let other people's opinions drown out your inner voice. Above all, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They don't know who you really want to be. Everything else is secondary. What he said better explained that his success was the courage to stick to his inner voice and intuition and make unremitting efforts for it.
After reading "Living to Change the World: The Biography of Jobs", I read a long and thick book, with a lot of content and a little bits and pieces, so the content left in my mind after reading it was a bit messy, but I have always had deep admiration for a person with such a distinctive personality and such a responsibility for his life.
"Jobs' personality is reflected in the products he created. Just like Apple's core idea, from the original Macintosh of 1984 to the ipad a whole generation later, it has always been an end-to-end integration of software and hardware, and so has Jobs himself: his personality, passion, perfectionism, dark side, desire, artistic temperament, cruelty and control desire are all intertwined with his business philosophy and the ultimate innovative products. "
Jobs is unruly, moody, mentally rebellious, and has a strong distorted position in reality ... My husband said that his life was a bit of a failure, because he would mercilessly criticize those technological elites, and many people were afraid of him, but he was very successful in doing things, making Apple and Pixar so successful and letting those elites in the industry do things for him. However, at the end of the book, it is mentioned that someone asked him why he was sometimes so mean. He said it was because he kept an absolute loyalty to others and fully expressed his inner feelings and thoughts. I have a certain understanding of this answer. "Polite and smooth leaders who are careful not to hurt others usually do not effectively promote change."
Although many people are puzzled by his distorted position in reality, his powerful aura has proved that others have done what these people think impossible. I think this is actually the ultimate embodiment of an indomitable spirit.
I said that Jobs is actually an artist, and he can integrate ideas, art and technology, which is reflected in the iphone and ipad we use now. Every detail of the design and the beauty of every line are achieved through their small efforts. If it weren't for Steve Jobs and Apple's pursuit of Excellence and persistence in perfection, how could such excellent products appear?
The last part of the book describes Jobs' knowledge of Microsoft, and I agree with him: "It's easy to attack Microsoft. They have obviously lost their dominant position. They have become basically irrelevant. But I appreciate what they have done and understand how difficult it is. They are good at business. They have never had the ambition they should have in terms of products. Bill likes to describe himself as a product manufacturer, but he is really not. He is a businessman. Winning business is more important than making great products. He finally became the richest man. If his goal had been achieved at that time, he would have achieved it long ago. But that was never my goal, and I doubt whether it was his goal in the end. Because of the company he founded, I admire him very much-excellent-and I like to cooperate with him. He is very clever and actually has a good sense of humor. But no one in Microsoft's genes has ever asked about spirit and artistic temperament. Even if they see the Mac, they can't imitate it well. They don't know what this is. " His understanding is profound. Microsoft pursues profit, and he is creating products that change the world.
In the first part of the book, Jobs feels a little cold-blooded, but at the end of the book, except for his little tenderness and love, it's all for his wife and children. Although he is unruly, he is absolutely loyal to his marriage, which may be related to American culture. What he said to his wife on the 20th anniversary touched me very much. "Many years have passed, with children, there are good times and difficult times, but there have never been bad times."
At the end of the book, it is mentioned that when his wife told him that Obama wanted to see him, he said that he didn't want to go, which further reflected his personality.
I seldom admire a person, but I admire him, a person who changed the world. If he is still alive, he will definitely apply technology, art and ideas to the extreme.