(Newswire.net — April 12, 2014) Melbourne, VIC — Steve Jobs observed that life is not all peaches and cream and that out of every adversity comes the seed of a greater benefit, even though it might not seem like it at the time. This is illustrated in the fact that he was given up for adoption, initially excepted by people who had college degrees, only to be rejected because he was a boy and not a girl and then finally adopted by people who had never had a college education. It was only year’s later, looking back how he could see how all these events transpired to help him become the person he became.
He said, “find a way to do you love to do” and whilst this is a great goal, for most people their
life is dominated by daily survival routines just too make ends meet, meaning they are so busy being busy they get lost in the wash and never get to entertain the bigger reasons for living, something Steve worked out early in life.
Steve Jobs believed in trusting his intuition and listening to that inner voice, however the sad reality for most people is they just simply fall into there chosen occupations with a good percentage just following the footsteps of their parents, and then eventually a lot of people
feel constrained by the demands of their job and supporting a family to the point they feel trapped and at this point people can feel a long way away from trust and intuition Steve talks about, because they are so busily consumed by outward pressures they just don’t have enough time to think things through.
After being sacked from Apple, which is the business he started at age 30, a business that was now turning over 2 billion and had 4000 employees he said “he was devastated and didn’t really know what to do for a few months”, however, the one thing he didn’t have to ponder was whether he had created enough money, something the average person will never even get close too.
Amazingly the concept of death was ever present in the life of Steve Jobs where at 17 he read a quote that would stick with him most days of his life, he said it went something like “live each day as if it was your last because someday you will most certainly be right”.
Steve Jobs was in mystical terms what is called an old soul, because to have the awareness to be thinking about where he was eventually going to be was simply that, BEING, whilst at the same time meshing that with the reality of doing, having and giving which are all external events linked to the ego, the point here he had a balanced perspective.
In his 2005 Stanford University commencement address he says “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 peoples thinking, don’t let the noise of others 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”.
Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
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