Steve Jobs-Success in the Midst of Failure

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Steve Jobs was one of the most fascinating people to have ever lived. I find him fascinating not only because of his many accomplishments but because he found success in the midst of failure. Steve Jobs was not one to give up. He was not satisfied with mediocrity. He was an out of the box thinker not satisfied with the status quo. Steve was extraordinary. He dropped out of an expensive college, which many people would consider failure. Instead of failing, Steve dropped in on classes out of his curiosity or because he loved the subject. He audited classes while sleeping in his friends’ dorms. Little did Steve know at the time that a Calligraphy course would actually be the catalyst to spark his comeback? “If I had never dropped in on that Calligraphy course, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts”, said Jobs, “You cannot connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect the dots looking backwards.” In his Stanford commencement speech, you can see that he uses his background to shape and mold his future. I think that he is very interesting, because he did what most people could not do. His life went downhill, and in the long-run it became better than ever before. (Wikipedia 13) Another interesting point about Steve Jobs is how his life changed so quickly. The company he manufactured grew from a garage enterprise, into an enormous company worth more than Poland. Job’s ambition was incredible. It all started when Jobs recruited John Sculley to “change the world” with him as Apple’s CEO. Later in life, Steve realized that Sculley was the wrong man to run Apple. Apple’s board of directors disagreed with Steve and removed him from the head of the Macintosh division. Steve resigned from Apple. While he was away from Apple, Steve founded NeXT computer, and Pixar, which became highly successful. In 1996,

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