1) Follow your passion and interests. Steve was a lover of all things electronic and found a mentor in one of his neighbour. His passions led him to have a conversation William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard during his early years about a missing component from one of their products.
2) Do what you feel to be right, not what others tell you is right. Steve dropped out of university. He saw that the cost of the tuition was eating away at his parents savings accounts and didn’t believe that to be the best use of their nest-egg. I’m sure Steve’s parents and his fellow classmates would have loved him to continue to study and aim for Cum Laude graduation status but instead, he decided to invest in himself and his ideas.
3) Defeat is a passing phase, not a static state. Before Steve Jobs made the iPod and its various mutations, he was responsible for a few commercial flops, notably, the ‘Lisa’ desktop computer.
4) Belief and vision are priceless. Steve bought a computer graphic and animations company from George Lucas, believing that the company’s creative output would be a staple of modern cinema. After years of nurturing and support, the group became what is now known as Pixar Animation Studios who released their first film, Toy Story, in 1995, raking in some £362 million in box office receipts.
5) Legacy is inevitable. Whether you are a pauper, a prisoner or responsible for one of the biggest evolutions in consumer electronics, you will leave a collection of people and places that hold memories of you.
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