A unique life story...
Steve Jobs' commencement address is on of those unique life stories I've known and heard. This is full of excitement, amusement and emotions. Everybody knows that Steve Jobs is a well-known successful technopreneur but not all of them care to know the root of it. I admit that I was one of them. All I do was to watch the movie pirates of the Silicon Valley and judge him accordingly. But then, a great realization has strike into my soul when I’ve read his commencement address. My perceptions on him as a human being have changed. I started to feel guilt about the words I’ve spoken against him and finished it all by sympathy and love to his unique life story.
An intriguing question was drawn out from my mind:
“How did he manage to accept great failures and stand up again?”
That question is running in my mind over and over again. Though I’ve read Steve Jobs’ full commencement address, my question is not yet answered. Maybe this time I should learn to apply that question to myself and find the answers to that unconsciously.
Admitting mistakes is easy to learn but hard to maintain…
In my last post where in I was asked:
“Would you take the same career path that Steve Jobs took? Why or why not?”
Then I answered:
“Bill Gates: Success is a menace. It fools smart people into thinking they can't lose.
As I read this line I have settled my mind not to follow the road in which Steve Job has take. Why?
He is not worth it to be respect by people around him.
When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were just starting to sell their little cute computer, I can clearly remember these lines from them:
Steve Wozniak: Where's your beard?
Steve Jobs: In the bathroom sink. I shaved it off.
Steve Wozniak: Well, how come?
Steve Jobs: 'Cause banks don't like beards.
In this part, Steve Jobs made me amaze with the way he shows his eagerness to be a respectable person and at the same time he knows how to lower his pride as a human. For in fact, what bank would dare to let him loan money with the unpleasant and cannot be trusted aura. Suddenly, when he became a rich man everything in the past becomes part of his artificial enrichment to the world. He pays to the bank with beard in the lower lip and wearing short cut-jeans. It cannot be called the simplicity of a person because as people tolerated him it seems like he loves the way he wears like that. He used to come at the office without proper attire or just a simple formal long jean. Yes funny to be watched but I feel it more like disputable. “
In that statement, looking back to the time tat I have not yet read Steve Jobs’ commencement address, I feel mad at him?! Somehow, angry and even hate him for being a ridiculous person. Now, different things are being different. From being mad to delicately admitting my mistakes of labeling him like that as a person.
Confirming to myself that I shouldn’t write that statement against him does make me feel neither sorry about it nor regrets, because IF THINGS HAPPEN TO BE PERFECT AT ITS FIRST EXISTENCE, THERE CAN BE A SPEECHLESS FLOW OF LEARNING. An incident in a series of incidents, let me narrate my own mislead perceptions and update it with a right one.
