Succeeding is the measure of what we can be versus what we are, and what we are as opposed as to what we would like to become. Success doesn't come whenever we become what others expect from us, even if it means achieving possessions and positions envied by others. You don't succeed by becoming what others want you to become; they might, as manipulators, but not certainly you. So if you want to succeed, the first success that you have to achieve is to be candid with yourself in order to know if what you think that you want is really what you want, and separate your inner convictions from outside suggestions or impositions which may have been well-intended or not, but certainly are not yours. On the other hand, failure is not to remain far away from your goals, but to cease trying to reach them. We need to remember that we are humans whenever we succeed and whenever we fail.
You live as what you are living, but as you go through life time change you; motivating or discouraging incidents happen just like what the movie I’ve watched “Pirates of the Silicon Valley” wherein Steve Jobs just start as being him, just simple, but then discovered something interesting that maybe made him obsessed to achieve what he thought but was never his plan before it happened. “Information is Power”, that’s what he said when his friend built the blue box that makes a free long distance call anywhere in the world.
His motivation about computers that time was not yet born; it was all started by his friend Woz who showed much more interest to computers. He was just determined to earn money. When his frustrated or angry, then he did anything or go to some place that would make him feel free just to be happy. He feeds and feeds his self of happiness, then later back to normal mood. When the first computer they ever built was showed at Homebrew Computer Club, they sold 50$ then later and later they got bigger money sold by that computer, that motivated him to defeat IBM. The first trouble was that Woz was working with HP and he promised his father to give the first chance anything that he invent, but he did make a way to make them hate it. The next is Steve wants to get a loan to the bank but he doesn’t look like a businessman, so he keep on making ways just to get a loan from the bank to sustain their invention. Then they called themselves Apple making little computers in Steve’s garage, until someone came, Mike Markula the intelligence person of Intel who funded Apple Computers about quarter million dollars.
Through a Computer fair happened in San Francisco, Apple was later a huge Company, and Steve Jobs?? He really looks differently compared before with forehead straight walking behind him were the people of Apple. He is now a huge person, a big change was happened to him, boastful, demanding, and any other negative attitudes was seen into him, he doesn’t care about the feelings of anyone, he wants to uplift Apple and undeniably also his self. He doesn’t want people that he feels that could ruin Apple or could trait him, he wanted to secure honesty and loyalty to him, he chose people, “you got to be careful which door you open” he was wise, but not too much. He doesn’t listen of what other people say, the advices of his friend made him like deaf, he is selfish, he only thinks of his self, he is self-centered, but, there was a little twist on him, when his first daughter born, he was so frustrated to name her any kind of weird name by his girlfriend so he called her Lisa. It was also the name of the first big new project of Apple. Steve was so happy even if he denied the baby that she is his, people wondered why he insisted that name to the new computer.
On the way, he want more, and he believe that “good artists copy, great artists steal”, so he want more stuff to make his computer great. He wanted to steal Xerox, who makes the mouse, graphics on the screen and any other stuff that the California engineers made. He persuaded Xerox brass to present to them what they made to take some information about the graphics interface, and they did really take it that leads to another big money for them. However, here is Bill Gates, offering him to work with Apple, with beautiful words that Bill gates spoke onto Steve; he gave the three prototypes of the Macintosh which was slowly kills him down. He had tear off the Apple into pieces, Apple II people separated against Macintosh team. Another problem came, Time Magazine make a story about Arlene, his girlfriend and the baby, it says she’s asking for $20,000, Mark said that just give what she want because he can afford it but he resisted.
Later, he discovered that Bill is stealing from Apple by creating Windows to compete with them. Moreover, Bill is the wisest person I’ve ever know, he convinced Steve that Windows is just nothing, that it doesn’t have a threat to Apple. But then, when the video Steve shown to the Apple people that contain their engineers unpacking the Japanese Computers with first copies of Windows Bill created which mostly looks like Macintosh, all things was miserable to Steve, it really ruined his huge carrier. That time he realized what he had done, he trusted, believed but then made him fooled. He and Steve argued and all the hurt feelings were out at that time, but Steve insisted that Apple is better than Microsoft, but Bill only said “that doesn’t matter”. When Steve’s 30th birthday party came, that was the worst gift he had ever had his entire life I think. Three months later, the president of Apple Computers Inc. John Scully fired Steve Jobs.
After all these things, all he needs is just a family, the thing that couldn’t be paid any happiness.
“Sometimes, you find things that are more important to you than the things you think are important…maybe just its getting older”. You do anything to please everyone, to lift your life status, but doing it without staying your feet on the ground is much worse than being just a beggar. The cause of success is the one which made you down but still motivate you to stand up and continue. Life has full of failures, but in order to fight it is to deal it without fear to face another of it, you can’t get the meaning of winning unless you tear off thinking you’re losing, that’s the key to success.
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