In this never before seen interview, a younger Steve Jobs gave a rare glimpse of his vision of the world...
Steve Jobs:
When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money...
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader. Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you called life was made up by people who were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use...
Once you learnt that, you'll never be the same again.
Jonathan Rosenberg was Google Inc. Senior Vice President. Prior to joining Google in 2002, he was a founding member of @Home's product group and served as Senior Vice President after the merger of @Home and Excite. Prior to that, he managed the eWorld product line for Apple Computer. And prior to that, he was the director of product marketing for Knight Ridder Information Services.
Jonathan Rosenberg:
Fostering innovation, 5 rules. So how do we foster this innovation? Most companies manage creativity in order to manage risk, that just doesn't work. Do we have an artist here today? Go do your art from 10 to 12 and be very creative, 12 to 4 is the management meeting. It doesn't work. Innovation comes from creativity, creativity cannot be managed, it can be allocated, it can be budgeted, it can be measured, it can be tracked and encouraged, but it can't be dictated.
Innovation rule 2. Create a culture of yes based on optimism and big thinking. Organizations developed anti-bodies to change, that's why big companies stop innovating. If you're the innovator you're like the virus, the anti-bodies wanna kill you. Many people think it's their function to do nothing but say "thou shalt not". Leaders protect people from anti-bodies, your focus should be thou shalt. Create a spirit of optimism, pessimist don't change the world.
Innovation rule 3. Never stop someone from moving forward with their good idea because you have a better one. There's a bull market for innovation, and a Darwinian process for reading out the bad ideas. You will do best by simply encouraging all of them. The best will win and the others will fail. Thomas Edison said: " Have a great idea, have a lot of them."
Innovation rule 4. A leader's job is not to prevent risks but to build the capability to recover when failures occur. There is no such thing as a good failure and a bad failure. Or there is such a thing as a good failure and a bad failure. A good one happens quickly, and it provides plenty lessons. Sometimes you have to look at these lessons in the data. A bad failure takes a long time and you don't learn anything. Leaders don't prevent failures, they prevent bad failures.
Innovation rule 5. A good crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Whenever the public endorse a crisis, ordinary citizens start to wonder how and whether our institutions really work. We no longer take things for granted. It is only then change becomes possible. Many management challenges are in fact teaching moments. The crisis is the built-in narrative, so use it.
* "Your Personal Philosophy is the Greatest determining factor in how your Life works out." Jim Rohn
* Combine your Knowledge. None of us is Smarter than All of Us.
* Welcome Greatness... it Lives all around you.
* Choose to: Think the Best about others. Believe the Best about others.
* Be Enthusiastic!
* Put people up, not down.
* Develop the Ability to find the Ability in others. It's Priceless!
* Help others... Be Liked... Be Right... Be Comfortable... Be Winners.
* Get your ego out of the way.
* Replace the word "I" with the word "We".
* Inspire someone to be the Best they can be.
* Be an Exception, not an exemption.
* Think like a person of Action, act like a person of Thought.
* Commit to something bigger than yourself.
* Act as if what you do makes a Difference. It does!
* Go for it!
* Start an Epidemic of Enthusiasm.
* Throw your Heart over the bar, and your body will Follow.
* Don't waste time waiting for Inspiration. Begin, and Inspiration will find you.
* Be on a Mission.
* Never let weeds grow under your Dreams.
* Never mistake Knowledge for Wisdom.
* Never chase a lie.
* Never laugh at anyone's Dream.
* Never make excuses.
* Celebrate what you want more of.
* Make promises Sparingly. Keep them Faithfully.
* Develop a Tolerance for failure.
* Have no Limits.
* Keep your Promises.
* Never kill an Idea.
* Pursue Character before Prosperity.
* Be Loyal.
* Ask, "What if?"
* Give so much time to the Improvement of yourself that you don't have time to criticize others.
* Create an Atmosphere of Forgiveness.
* Make your word your Bond.
* Don't belittle, Be BIG!
* Learn to say NO! to the good... so you can say YES! to the Great.
* Be unpopular when necessary.
* Never be ashamed of what you Believe.
* Never let up when you are Ahead.
* Don't blow your own horn or you might miss the music.
* "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." Jim Rohn
Well, he wore sandals and he had long, very long hair and beard and mustache, but very Articulate. I think at one time in his life and it was probably when I first met him that he ate nothing but fruit.
Bob Taylor:
So as a mainline venture capitalist, is this...
This is not the norm. This is not the norm...
Steve Jobs:
And I'm also one of these people that I don't really care about being right, I just care about Success.
One year after LISA, we are introducing the third industry milestone product... Macintosh.
Ultimately it comes down to taste, it comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done, and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing. Picasso had a saying, ' Good artist copy, Great artist steal.' And we have always been shameless about stealing Great ideas.
Will Smith: I have a great time with my life and I wanna share it.
Shares his WISDOM on Life
I love living, and I think that's infectious, it's something that you can't fake.
GREATNESS exists in all of Us
Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, illusive, God-liked feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It's something that fully exist in all of us. Very simple, this is what I believe and I'm willing to die for it. I know who I am and I know what I believe, and that's all I need to know, so from there, you do what you need to do. And I think what happens is we make the situation more complex. It can be that easy.
YES it can
We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter because we will becoming something greater.
There's no shortcut to SUCCESS
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who were trying to excel, who have dreams, they want to do things. Talent you have it naturally, skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented, where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work effort. You know while the other guys sleeping, I'm working, while the other guys eating, I'm working.
There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are, your talent is going to fail you if you are not skilled. You know if you don't study, if you don't work really hard, and dedicate yourself to be better every single day, you will never be able to communicate with people, with your artistry the way that you want.
The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things - You are going to get off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple.
Lay one Brick at a TIME
One summer his dad tore down a brick wall in front of his business, and told twelve year old Will and his nine year old brother to rebuild it, the job they said was impossible. It took them a year and a half... but they did it. Will Smith: And he said: "Now don't you ever tell me there's something that you can't do."
You don't try to build a wall, you don't set out to build a wall, you don't say "I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built." You don't start there. You say, 'I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid." You do that every single day. And soon you have a wall.
FOCUS on making a difference
You know there's an idea that my grandmother always said, "If you gonna be here, then there's a necessity to make a Difference." She always instilled the spiritual responsibility that you have to make every group you come contact with better.
I want to do good. I want the world to be better because I was here.
I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something. If you're not making someone else's life better then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Represent an IDEA
I want to represent an Idea. I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent the Idea that you really can make what you want. One of my favorite books is the Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo... and I just believe that. I believe that I can create whatever I want to create.
You have to BELIEVE
The first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to Believe it. There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. I think that there's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history... you have to Believe that something different can happen.
Confucius said, "He who says he can't and he who says he can't are both usually right."
NOTHING is Unrealistic
Being Realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. Why would you be Realistic? What's the point of being Realistic? I'm going to do it! It's done! It's already done. The second I decide it's done it's already done, now we just got to wait for you to see.
It's unrealistic to walk into a room and flip a switch and the lights come on, that's unrealistic! Fortunately Edison didn't think so. It's unrealistic to think you're gonna bend a piece of metal and fly people over an ocean. That's unrealistic! But fortunately the Wright Brothers and others didn't believe that, and it just seems like such a ridiculous idea to me to embrace the idea that it's not going to happen and that's not real for that to happen. As soon as you say it, now you just made that real.
Our THOUGHTS are Physical
Our Thoughts, our Feelings, our Dreams, our Ideas are physical in the Universe, that if we dream something, if we picture something, if we commit ourselves to it ... that is a physical thrust towards realization that we can put into the Universe. That the Universe is not a thing that's going to push us around. That the world and people and situations are not something that push us around. That we are going to bend the universe and command and demand that the Universe becomes what we want it to be.
I study the patterns of the Universe.
There's a redemptive power that making a Choice has, you know rather than feeling like you're an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a Choice! Just decide, what it's going to be, who you're gonna be, how you're gonna do it. Just Decide! And from that point the Universe is going to get out of your way, it's like water. It wants to move and go around stuff.
You know there's a flow of the Universe that I've grown to know just how to go with it.
You really gotta FOCUS
I realised that to have the level of success that I wanna have it's difficult to spread it out and do multiple things. It takes such a desperate, obsessive Focus. You've really gotta Focus with all your fiber, and all of your heart, and all of your creativity.
Attack your Fears
I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear! I hate being scared to do something, and I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.
Be WILLING to die for the TRUTH
You can't be scared to die for the Truth. The Truth is the only thing that is always going to be constant.
Protect your DREAM
Don't ever let somebody tell you you can't do something. Not even me, alright? You got a Dream? You've got to protect it! People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. You want something? Go get it! Period.
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