The one learning a language! Learn about premium features. Tired of searching? HiNative can help you find that answer you're looking for. Register for free. Solve your problems more easily with the app! In between, he speaks extensively about what helped him survive it all: an enduring love for what one does.
And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned And then I got fired.
How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out.
And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down — that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.
I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.
And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. Nice analysis, I like how you decyphered the punch!
But I thought Jobs was Buddhist, no? Living multiple times and all that.. Even if he did believe in reincarnation, it's just an expression easily replaced with carpe diem or YOLO or whatever you like. In his words: On the back of the cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous.
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