{"id":776,"date":"2011-10-07T03:23:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T10:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2013-01-07T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T05:10:10","slug":"thinking-about-steve-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Steve Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

The remembrances have poured in.\u00a0 I even wrote one for a client.\u00a0 So you may wonder (at least I do) why I would spend time writing something about Steve Jobs at the JuiceBar.<\/p>\n

Well, for a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n

First, Steve Jobs was a genius.\u00a0 He did change things – in computing, music, entertainment.\u00a0 God knows I supported him.\u00a0 I bought the Macintosh soon after it came out.\u00a0 Then another.\u00a0 Then another. When he came out with that wedge computer thing, I was there wallet in hand.\u00a0 Over the years I’ve purchased a truck load – no, shipload – of Steve Jobs’ stuff not only for me but for my family.<\/p>\n

I bought iMac laptops for each of my children after they graduated from high school.\u00a0 In fact, the amount of other Apple ‘i’ variations that I’ve purchased for my wife and family could … well … let’s just say that if I hadn’t I may have been able to retire by now.\u00a0 (I was rummaging through the desk and basement the other day and came across a stack of a half-dozen of the old, bulky, and expensive! pre-historic iPods … yes, they’ve only been around for ten years but it seems a lifetime).<\/p>\n

Second, he was just one really interesting guy.\u00a0 If you haven’t read his Stanford graduating address<\/a><\/strong>, you should.\u00a0 It is daring, sharp, challenging, and exciting.\u00a0 A reflection of the person himself.\u00a0 And if you haven’t read the Apple story, you should.\u00a0 Go to Amazon and type in “Steve Jobs” and “Apple”.\u00a0 Here.\u00a0 I’ll save you the keystrokes.\u00a0 Click this<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 You can spend the next year of your life reading about him, his story, and his “secrets” that people claim Jobs had.<\/p>\n

Funny.\u00a0 Get secrets for a few bucks.\u00a0 Guess they’re not so secret are they?\u00a0 And believe me, if it were up to Jobs the secrets wouldn’t be selling for so cheap.<\/p>\n

I’ve never met Steve Jobs.\u00a0 And because I’m in the profession that I’m in I have a healthy suspicion that the person we read about and hear about in the media is likely very different than reality.\u00a0 But hey, the mythology of Steve Jobs is our reality so let’s go with that.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Steve Jobs’ life taught me.<\/p>\n

To do great, transformative things in business you need to have a unique combination of vision, daring, and resilience.\u00a0 It takes all three.\u00a0 Without the vision you’re boring and are just making money.\u00a0 Without the daring you’ll be improving on what is, not creating the new.\u00a0 And without resilience, you’ll never survive the failures that inevitably come.<\/p>\n

Few people have all three of those qualities to the extent that Steve Jobs seemed to.\u00a0 I know I don’t!<\/p>\n

Not many of us out there are going to ever create the next Apple.\u00a0 Few of us will either have the opportunity or ability to change and create new categories like Steve Jobs did.\u00a0 But we are people and we do live in a community.\u00a0 What if we took what meager measures of what we do have – our vision, our daring, and our resilience – and applied them not just to a company or a product or a piece of business … but to our faith, our family, our friends and the people around us.<\/p>\n

In other words, what if we took these exemplary attributes of Steve Jobs and just applied them to our everyday stuff.\u00a0 We could all do that, couldn’t we?\u00a0 And if we did, what would that look like?<\/p>\n

Steve Jobs said, “Your time is limited.\u00a0 Don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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