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    Steve Jobs: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
    Steve Jobs: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
    Steve Jobs: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
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    Steve Jobs: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success

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    Only a select few individuals can claim to have changed the world. Steve Jobs is one of these.

    The mythology around the man is so strong that even six years after his death he still dominates online discussion. With his passing, we have lost one of the greatest innovators of our time.

    Jobs wasn't just a successful businessman, he was a visionary who made it his mission to humanize personal computing, rewriting the rules of user experience design, hardware design and software design. His actions echoed across industry lines: He shook up the music business, provided the vision behind Pixar and forever altered the way we experience computing. Along the way, he built Apple up into one of the most valuable corporations in the world.

    Quite a run. He will be missed.

    This book takes a look at his life. From adoption at birth, to his eventual death in 2011 - including his many successes and failures along the way. The aim of this book is to be educational and inspirational with actionable principles you can incorporate into your own life straight from the great man himself.

    *INCLUDING* Steve Jobs' 10 Principles for a Successful Life

    Don't wait - get your copy today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Farrington
    Release dateAug 2, 2018
    ISBN9781386628187
    Steve Jobs: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success

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      Steve Jobs - Influential Individuals

      Steve Jobs

      The Life, Lessons & Rules For Success

      Influential Individuals

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One:  A confused beginning

      Chapter Two:  Bearing fruit

      Chapter Three:  The birth of macintosh

      Chapter Four:  What came next?

      Chapter Five:  Private person

      Chapter Six:  The end of a life

      Chapter Seven:  Rules for success

      Chapter Eight:  Steve Jobs; A life in 44 facts

      Conclusion

      Copyright © 2018 Influential Individuals

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      Chapter One:  A Confused Beginning

      They were my parents 1000%. – Steve Jobs on his adoptive parents, Clara and Paul.

      They were my sperm and egg bank. – about his biological parents.

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      A favorite childhood pastime for the future Apple boss was to tinker away in his garage with his adoptive father. It would be this tinkering – with friends rather than dad – a few years later that would lead to a creation that both changed the world and made Jobs rich beyond measure.

      But that childhood could have been very different. Had it been so, who knows where the world might be today. Would we have the internet at our fingertips, on the go? Would our music be stored in a tiny box, a fraction the size of a CD?

      Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24th 1955 to a Wisconsin student and her lecturer partner. Joanne Carole Schieble’s relationship with the young teacher was tempestuous; more on than off, and never especially stable.

      A part of that instability came from the fact that the relationship crossed racial lines. Her partner, Abdelfattah Jandali – better known as John – was of middle eastern descent. This kind of multi-cultural relationship was not well received in the US of the 1950’s. It also failed to attract the support of John’s family. The young man had become a political science teacher at the tender age of 23, and Carole was one of his students. They would go on to marry the year after Jobs was born, but at the time Carole fell pregnant, John felt that they lacked the maturity and financial security to enter into parenthood.

      Frustrated, Carole headed to California and made arrangements for her child to be adopted. She was determined that he would go to a good home, and high up on the list of criteria she laid out was that his adopted parents would ensure he would go on to attend college. The couple Carole placed at the top of her list wanted a girl, but next in line were Paul and Clara Jobs. They would become parents to the new born baby. When Jobs became the world-famous business leader we know, John expressed an interest in meeting with his biological son. John claimed he did not realize he was going to be given to new parents, Steve was unrelenting in his rejection.

      I’d rather sell sh*t than meet with him, was Jobs’ adult view of his biological father, a man he had, and would never, meet.

      Later, John and Carole would go on to have another child – a daughter they named Mona (who holds the dubious distinction of being the woman for whom Mona Simpson is named – Mona would later marry Simpsons’ writer Richard Appel). As we shall see, Steve and Mona would get to know each other, and would develop a strong, close and deep bond.

      But that is many years in the future. Paul and Clara Jobs were an all-American couple, unable to have children of their own, but totally committed to the baby they adopted. Paul worked in Silicon Valley as a machinist. He was immensely creative; both a talented designer and outstanding manufacturer. The kind of

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