Personality Analysis: Steve Jobs
BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS
Steve’s Childhood
Steve jobs, born on 24th Feb 1955, in the city of San Francisco, was adopted by Paul and Clara jobs, middle class Americans. He did his high school from the city of Los Altos which was a home to an unusually high number of engineers. Steve decided to graduate from Reed College in the city of Oregon, a renowned liberal arts college and one of the most expensive ones in America which required his parents to put all their savings in his tuition. However he dropped out of the college as his interest grew surged in the world of electronics which he had already discovered at the tender age of eleven. As he attended Reed College in Oregon, Steve Jobs realized higher education would not give him what he expected from life. His grades were extremely poor. Here's what he said about it some thirty-two years later:
"After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it."
(Source: Stanford Commencement Address, 12 June 2005)
So, after six months, he dropped out and started to immerse himself in the studies of Eastern mysticism. He even traveled around India in search of spiritual enlightenment. Then, at age 19, he got his first job at video-game manufacturer
Steve’s Childhood
Steve jobs, born on 24th Feb 1955, in the city of San Francisco, was adopted by Paul and Clara jobs, middle class Americans. He did his high school from the city of Los Altos which was a home to an unusually high number of engineers. Steve decided to graduate from Reed College in the city of Oregon, a renowned liberal arts college and one of the most expensive ones in America which required his parents to put all their savings in his tuition. However he dropped out of the college as his interest grew surged in the world of electronics which he had already discovered at the tender age of eleven. As he attended Reed College in Oregon, Steve Jobs realized higher education would not give him what he expected from life. His grades were extremely poor. Here's what he said about it some thirty-two years later:
"After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it."
(Source: Stanford Commencement Address, 12 June 2005)
So, after six months, he dropped out and started to immerse himself in the studies of Eastern mysticism. He even traveled around India in search of spiritual enlightenment. Then, at age 19, he got his first job at video-game manufacturer