Reading reflection

One of the most surprising things to me was Steve jobs off putting personality. It seems that at a young age he wasn’t much of a team player in being able to work well with others. It can e noticed specifically when he got the job with Atari and his coworkers gravitated away from him. 

One of the things I admired about Steve jobs was his adopted parents constant support. At a young age, they realized his creativeness and understood that it was more so misguided energy being displaced. Other than the drugs that he experimented with, they enabled me helped him foster his inner creativity into different productive projects. 

One thing that I admired the least, would be the mannerism of which he handled his first child and dismissing that it was even his child. I understand the reasoning behind it but when you look at the evidence that was presented, he was in the wrong of which he later admitted. 

Steve Jobs is one who encountered several different adversity and trials during his life. One of the first ones is the fact that his parents gave him up for adoption of and dealing with that built up anger and confusion. The other major one was him dropping out of college. As a result of entire to Atari and camped out till he got a job. Another is him going to India and embarking on a spiritual journey. So through his times of adversity he has overcome them through perseverance and outside of the box thinking.

One of the biggest competencies is his will to persevere and find another means of his situation. He was able to get a job although being a college dropout.  Moreover, he was able to secure the investment money needed to start up his company in producing Apple computers when the other Steve wanted to give it away for free. 

One part of the reading that was confusing to me was the part about his behavioral tendencies that seemed to plague him throughout his career. It seemed to be a recurring thing to the point he got demoted in his own company.

Two question that I would ask is, how did the reality distorting field come about? The other would be how were you able to capitalize on your shortcomings. These questions are important in relation to how your able to willfully enable others around you to help you in your success. 

I think his opinion of hard work is that it was absolutely necessary. Especially from his story and how he came about to get to where he is has been nothing short of believing in himself and making opportunities when there aren’t.