Steve taught us:
1. Men can die at a young age. Steve was 56. Today, the average age of death for a man, is 78.
2. You don't have to be a college graduate to be a Billionaire.
3. Money alone, cannot fix your health.
4. Follow your heart, when everyone else around you doesn't agree with you. Steve dropped out of college, with no plan in place, even though his parents had saved all their money and his blood mother made it mandatory he go to college. By NOT going to college, Steve learned more important things during that time period, which set up and established the company we know as Apple. Had he not dropped out, those events would not have led to Apple's great success.
5. Steve's 2005 Stanford commencement speech: "We cannot connect the dots of the future. We can only connect the dots of our past. Take a look at what's gotten you up to this point in your life. There are no accidents. Follow your heart, wherever it's leading you. It knows what its doing. Trust yourself."
6. Take risks even though you don't know the outcome. It's the fun of the risk that's life's recipe, not the final destination. The MAC was born out of an idea, which had never been done and which all his critics said would be a failure and a bad idea.
7. Apple's stock price was $5 a share just 3 years ago. Now it trades over $400 per share.
Steve Jobs was a Visionary, among other things. We do well to follow his basic tenets in life, that includes simple, human foundational traits, which we sometimes forget we own;
Follow your heart.
Take risks.
Be who you were born to be, by not following anyone else.
Ride life as hard as you can, till it's over.
Share who you are with the world, no matter what that looks like.
Steve is greatly missed and we will appreciate his contributions well into future generations. I'm sure he's working on his next project as we speak........
Posted by Kent Boxberger
www.MarketCorp.net
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Steve Jobs also mentioned listening intuitively
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Yes Mike, in fact, he talked about how one of the graphics classes he sat in on, off-campus, gave him the tools he used to create the Mac's awesome graphics capabilities some 10 years later after the class. He said his intuition led him to the class, which at the time, he had no interest in and didn't even know why he was there, except it was just "something to do" at the time, to kill time. He had already dropped out, so he just went to this class unauthorized and learned.....it was a sit-in. But it turned out that the information from this class was key to creating the Macintosh we know today...wow! If he had stayed in college at Stanford, then he would not have been in this class and perhaps the Mac may not have ever been created....according to Steve..
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