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🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

1. The story of how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Inc.

🎨 Impressions

I loved reading this book, Steve Jobs’ has a very interesting life and I admire how determined he was to make a contribution to society by allowing computers to be used not only by major corporations but also to be used by the public. Steve has revolutionised the way people use their electronics and for that, I’m genuinely grateful.

How I Discovered It

I’d heard of Steve Jobs and I loved Apple and its products so I decided to read Steve’s Biography and learn more about how the company was founded and what Steve’s life was like.

Who Should Read It?

I think everyone should read the Steve Jobs Biography as it has a lot of life lessons in the book that can be extremely valuable.

☘️ How the Book Changed Me

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• I have started to pay close attention to the structure of things and how they’ve been built.
• I have become more selective with what foods I choose to put into my body because Steve made me realise how important it is to eat the correct foods.
• I strive to do all things to the best of my ability, even though I don’t like doing them.
• I appreciate the technology I have much more now after learning how much time and effort went into making the Mac, the iPhone, etc.
• I learned that I should seek mentors to help guide me towards my goals.
• I learned to have a balance in emotions, don’t be too nice and don’t be too harsh.
• Stickability: if you want something and fail, keep persisting and try to obtain it.

✍️ My Top Quotes

• “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”
• “Picasso had a saying—‘good artists copy, great artists steal—and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
• “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”
• “If you need slides, it shows you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
• “If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.”
• “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

📒 Summary + Notes

• Steve Jobs takes ideas and makes them better.
• He hired employees with Robert Oppenheimer’s strategy for recruiting people with the atomic bomb.
• When Steve talks to an audience he says “we” and involves everyone.
• Steve has laser focus and can channel out distractions.
• Steve can be harsh to employees and mark their work as “shit”.
• He is a perfectionist, (painted the insides of the mac) – the inside should look good too.
• Always goes for high quality and authenticity (chose authentic slabs for Apple store even though cheaper replica alternatives were available). – Authenticity lasts longer.
• The “i” in iPhone and iPod, etc, stands for internet.
• Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
• Steve’s Dad was a man of all crafts and showed Steve the smallest of details on cars and why they were of importance.

The Robert Oppenheimer Recruitment Strategy (TRORS)

Referenced from Research > History > War > Manhattan Project

The TRORS