When we think of someone as rich and famous as Steve Jobs was we like to imagine someone who craved the attention and the spectacle. That wasn’t Jobs. That shouldn’t be you either. Jobs was not celebrated as much as people think, even in his posthumous days.
Jobs went about his vision and didn’t give a d*** about what anyone else thought of it. Not friends, not family, not the media, not investors. He did his own thing and it worked out pretty well, don’t you think?
The morale of the story is that Jobs was who he was. He didn’t project a warm, fuzzy, grandpa image like Warren Buffett attempts to put out there. He was pushy, aggressive, and in many ways a jerk, but he changed the world several times over. He changed the technological direction of the world and the speed in which new and better products would enter the market.
Jobs wasn’t chasing fame and fortune, he was chasing his own vision and as he got closer to bringing it to the world he would change it and push the goal further and make it grander. I don’t know about you, but I like to be on the side where I’m true to myself and pursue what I believe will change the world, not what a survey or talking-heads on TV say.
Go out there and do you.
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