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My Tribute to Steve Jobs A genius is dead.A star has fallen.On 5 Oct 2011.Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.This was the man who “revolutionized six industries: personal computer, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing,” wrote Walter Isaacson in aTime article 1.He was also called the American Icon.Millions of people sent condolences in the facebook, thousands sent flowers to Apple stores around the world, but for many, the paing of Apple‟s founder leaves a hole in their hearts.I am not an Apple fan although I used a first generation Apple computer to write my thesis back in 1989.I don‟t have an iPhone or an iPod, but have recently received an iPad as a gift.I don‟t even know how to use iTunes and Apps.But Steve Jobs is one of my favourite characters in my General Education course: Great People and Great Speeches, as I am more intrigued by his life and his spirit than the clever things he devised.There are three things that I have learned from him and I would like to share them with our young men and women.FIRST.Never conform to the values of the world, but invent your own values and create your own “world”.In his famous speech to Stanford students in 2005, retold in another Time article by Lev Groman and Harry McCracken, Jobs said, “Your time is limited, so don‟t waste it in living someone else‟s life….Don‟t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people‟s thinking.Don‟t let the noise of others‟ opinions drown out your own inner voice.And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become.Everything else is secondary.” 2 In Hong Kong, I often find students choosing major and minor programmes in college not out of their own interest, but their parents‟ or their peers‟ interest, or, worse still, the interest of mainstream society.Don‟t, because that will not be YOU.I find some graduates hunting for jobs, not because they like what they do and they are inspired, but because those jobs are “available”, they are “nine-to-five” and they are “stable”.If we all do that, there will be no iPod, iPhone, iPad or “iDream” for our future generations.Strictly speaking, Steve Jobs did not create these gadgets, he “reinvented” them.The greatest talent of Jobs is that he understood people and he knew what they needed.And, he changed the world.There are many opportunities out there, we should think outside the box and follow our hearts.SECOND.Have paion in what you do, and dedicate your whole life to it.Recounted by Groman and McCracken, Jobs liked to quote Wayne Gretzky(the greatest ice hockey player of our time): you don’t skate to where the puck is, you skate to where it’s going to be.3 All his life he was trying to think ahead of others: how to make a two-year-old learn to use computer without learning, how to connect people and how to get good music and good movies while on the road.His paion started from taking a calligraphy course after quitting university.He had no training in hardware computing, electronic engineering, or even design.But he aimed to create products that would change the world, and he did.How did it happen? It did not happen overnight.Jobs must have lost so much sleep at night, so much valuable time with his family(and he regretted that), so many opportunities to enjoy life, in order to achieve what he had achieved.Everybody says, “No pain, no gain,” but if your work becomes your paion, then there is no(or le)pain!On the other hand, there is no shortcut to succe.Hurdles, rainy days, sleeple nights, frustrations and failures are norms.But succe will not be so sweet without turmoil.So, we should learn to see failure as a path to succe.“Stay hungry, stay foolish” is what Steve Jobs teaches us.He encouraged young people(and old people)to keep asking and keep learning.One day, we will get there.THIRD.Never be bitter about who you are and what you have(or haven‟t).Be optimistic, stay focused and always work with a team.Born to a Syrian graduate student, he was sent away for adoption shortly after birth.Jobs was raised by a not-so-rich family, found university too expensive and quit after an unhappy semester at Reed College in Portland.At the age of 21, he founded Apple with his buddy and never turned back.Did he encounter hurdles and setbacks? Oh, you bet.He was fired by the company he founded, sacked by the CEO he hired.He became the laughing stock in Silicon Valley at one point.Your family background might be equally humble.Your education should certainly be better than his.Then what are your chances of succe? You may say, “Hey, he is a genius and I am not.” But did he know? Did the world know? Now we say he is a legend and a genius.Back in 1976, when he founded Apple, or in 1985, when Jobs was sacked by Sculley(his CEO), nobody could even imagine the kingdom of Apple could grow so big in just two decades.Despite being criticized as a tough bo, Steve Jobs did not take all the credits.He knew very well that a team was always needed for succe and his team was BIG.He once said, “My model for busine is the Beatles: they were four guys that kept each other‟s negative tendencies in check.They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts.Great things in busine are never done by one person, they are done by a team of people.” Together with Steve Wozniak, with whom he co-founded Apple, John Laeter the creative chief of Pixar, and his many many engineers and designers, they formed a dream team.Let us try not to be too humble and grumble but work harder for our dream.I still have the shoe-box like machine called Apple Claic at home.The window is small and the screen is black-and-white.It is ugly but I love it.Steve, I take my hat off to you.Walter Isaacson, „American Icon‟, Time, October 17, 2011, pp.32.2 Lev Groman and Harry McCracken, „The Inventor Of the Future‟, Time, October 17, 2011, pp.50.3 Lev Groman and Harry McCracken, „The Inventor Of the Future‟, Time, October 17, 2011, pp.44–46.
