“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs
I hope that you don't feel tricked into looking at yet one more Steve Jobs tribute, but we do have so much to learn by what this guy believed and accomplished. How many people do you think actually took this crazy young man seriously? I mean really! He has crazy umkempt hair on his head and face, that his poorly fitted dress shirt just cannot disguise. The man has a picture of an apple behind him. Where is the vision in that?
One of life's biggest traps is that which Mr. Incredible Jobs overcame, and even if for a second you doubted his logic, the results of his thought process prove you wrong.
If Job's was human at all, then he most definitely had people in his life that warned him NOT to live by his own rules. They told him that life is limited so that he should learn from their mistakes and buckle down to play by the same rulebook that perhaps they once challenged and denied. They likely encouraged him to learn from his failures that he shouldn't waste his time chasing after pipe dreams or pursuing creative uncharted waters. These people probably came in groves as Job's continued on his path to success. These external voices probably became much louder than his internal voice. There were probably times when Job's wondered if he was crazy and that what everyone else said was true.
Now that it's over we see that Steve Jobs had a very strong inner voice that supported his heart and intuition and somehow he was blessed with this extraordinary gene that allowed him to listen more closely to that voice than the one of others. He rose above, likely losing people along the way, and put his creativity to great work.
He also worked his vision up to the bitter end. Being successful and rich did not cure his disease. He still died from it, but he died having pursued life in a way that others cheat themselves of.
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