This weekend I came across a movie on Steve Jobs life, I didnt watch the movie but I did find a biography and decided to read that instead. Here's another prime example of what can be accomplished with a dream and a lot of perseverance. The video below is from Steve's commencement address at Stanford in 2005, the particular section of the speech that this video covers was very inspiring to me. I hope it will be to you as well. If you wish to watch the whole speech CLICK HERE. For those interested i've included a quick biography of his life below, from adoption all the way to Apple computers. I'm sure you'll read something you didn't know about him. Anyway, Its the start of a new week, forget about the failures of the past and lets make this week count folks.
"Remembering that you are going to die, is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose" -Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the American businessman and technology
visionary who is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief
executive officer of Apple Inc, was born on February 24, 1955.
His parents were two University of Wisconsin graduate students,
Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah Jandali. They were
both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when
Steve was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for
adoption because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship.
The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs
(1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986). Later, when asked about his
"adoptive parents," Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs
"were my parents." He stated in his authorized biography that they "were
my parents 1,000%." Unknown to him, his biological parents would
subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist Mona
Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962.
The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View,
California when Steve was five years old. The parents later adopted a
daughter, Patti. Paul was a machinist for a company that made lasers,
and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his
hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family
garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild
electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became
interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering. Clara was an
accountant who taught him to read before he went to school.
Jobs's youth was riddled with frustrations over formal
schooling. At Monta Loma Elementary school in Mountain View, he was a
prankster whose fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study.
Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him
ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined. Jobs then
attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino,
California. During the following years Jobs met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak, a computer whiz kid.
Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at
Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which
Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their
life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs dropped out of
college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on
creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued
auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm
rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free
meals at the local Hare Krishna temple
In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer.
Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, an electronics industry worker, founded
Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.
They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing
manager and engineer Mike Markkula.
Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic
pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential
career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also
co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October
5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated
pancreatic cancer.
Source:
Wikipedia
