Jobs changed the world!
He popularized personal computers,
He let the original high-end high-priced high-tech things fly into the homes of ordinary people.
The so-called popularization means that everyone in the world has a computer.
Jobs said:
What Jobs said about true love is the computer.
Jobs can find what he loves, and he can always follow his intuition and curiosity. Only this, let us admire and admire.
Not everyone can do this, even if you want to do it, I'm afraid your environment won't allow it.
It needs a free environment to escort its beloved interests and intuitive curiosity!
Look at the educational environment of Silicon Valley geniuses:
The university where Jobs attended was Reed University, which was a school with extremely high tuition fees. When Jobs' father complained that the tuition was too high, Jobs said:
His father also agreed.
Jobs chose Reed University because of its freedom!
Reed University is famous for its open mind, and the campus itself is a distribution center for all kinds of popular ideas and rebellious behaviors. When Jobs went to school, the United States had just experienced the baptism of ideological emancipation, and hippies, the beat generation, avant-garde art and other ideological trends were colliding and merging.
At Reed University, hippies even found a place called "Apple Orchard" and built it into a paradise of rebellious culture. Young and maverick Jobs came to Reed, just like a young crop that found fertile soil and suddenly found his favorite life.
Like all hippies of that era, Jobs listened to BobDylan's folk songs and Beatles' rock, read AllenGinsberg's howling poems, recited the famous words of TimothyLeary, the godfather of hippies, wandered around the campus in clothes full of holes and made like-minded friends.
In fact, after only one semester at school, Jobs dropped out of school simply and neatly.
The opening of Reed University didn't come for nothing. Even people like Jobs who dropped out of school after a few days of school are not excluded from the school. They actually allowed Jobs to stay at school, and if he had a whim, he could also take classes in the classroom.
Jobs later said:
Jobs listened in on English calligraphy and Zen!
Later, it proved that in a free environment, these two courses selected according to interests made Jobs feel at home!
Absolutely, this is simply the driving force and engine for Jobs to create Apple and change the world!
For example, English calligraphy class. He later said:
This is an aesthetic training and an artistic accomplishment experience, which makes Jobs an ultimate perfectionist. His Apple products (computers and mobile phones) are simple, practical, beautiful, humanized and even romantic.
Every time a new Apple product is released, Apple fans will scream crazy!
Jobs's introductory reading for learning Zen is The Heart of a Zen Master written by Japanese Zen master shunryu suzuki in English. From the heart of Zen master, Jobs saw a clean, clear and arbitrary ideal world.
Learning Zen can make him calm down, hear his inner voice clearly, and keep him in close contact with his heart.
Yes, learning Zen allows Jobs not to go against his will, not to deviate from his heart, to keep a clear head and always know what he wants.
I have to say that all kinds of talents that Jobs later showed at Apple, including his unique strategic thinking, artistic and aesthetic product design, all have the shadow of his previous meditation and enlightenment.
As Zen Heart says:
Another point, which is very important to Jobs, is his unique experience in India.
The trip to India left an unforgettable impression on Jobs. For the first time, he saw countless poor people working hard in cities and fields. The streets are full of homeless people. Jobs found that those who worked in the fields still used the original farm tools thousands of years ago. Apart from Zen, this is probably the biggest gain of Jobs' trip to India. For the first time, Jobs really felt how much help a useful tool would bring to people's lives. He felt that he could do something for the world, and a dream was slowly emerging in his mind:
After Apple was founded, Jobs wanted to find a competent CEO. He took a fancy to Sculley, vice president of PepsiCo. After repeated persuasion, Sculley refused to come, so he said to Sculley:
This sentence deeply touched Sculley and eventually Sculley became the CEO of Apple.
Later, Jobs experienced the despair of letting the company he founded drive away, and also experienced the failure of starting NexT after leaving Apple, but his original intention and infatuation remained unchanged, that is:
It is precisely because of his unshakable values that Jobs returned to Apple, thus achieving the Apple myth, and he himself became a unique and well-deserved founder of Apple who changed the world!
In short, work can change the world because of these three factors:
1, choose freely in a free environment, and let him find what he really loves.
2. Learn Zen, let him learn and persist in meditation, and let him bravely follow his heart.
The unique experience of his trip to India strengthened his ideal of changing the world.
These three are inseparable and inextricably linked.
As Jobs said:
Unfortunately, we have no freedom!
I knew you would say that, haha!
But as long as you put your heart into it, you will squeeze out some freedom. To paraphrase Lu Xun, freedom is like water in a sponge. Just squeeze, there will always be a little bit, hahaha!
As for meditation, you don't have to learn Zen like Jobs. Too rigid, too mechanical. Matt Hagrid, a famous American writer, said:
Believe it or not!
Experience, needless to say, only when you find your favorite interest and learn to listen to your inner voice often through meditation will you naturally experience what you should experience.
Finally, share two famous sayings of Jobs: