Steve Jobs' Vision of the World

The world as Steve Jobs saw it:

When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• steve
• jobs
• world
• philosophy
• apple
• innovation
• products
• technology
• visionary
• leadership
• think
• different

[stoolpusher]

Seems like a LOT of people are completely missing what the point here is

[thekhan1010]

watching this video again and again makes me realize how much i've wasted my life.

[wixard200]

What a great mind/guy

[040181991]

@fedinhorax to each his own brah

[fedinhorax]

@040181991

oh, so you lead a normal life? well... there's nothing wrong with that....

i lead a life that pushes through walls, i extend limits and i take every possibility i can! it's not as limited as your lifestyle, but yours is fine as well, i guess...

;)

[040181991]

@fedinhorax well yea obviously because steve jobs believed in pushing beyond so called limits and possibilities. He doesnt believe in settling for what society tells you is "normal", but I dont think he means to say theres anything wrong with doing that

[fedinhorax]

@040181991

How do you interpret the sentence 'that is a very limited life'. That's not really a flattering way of describing a way of life.

[87Avantgarde]

on the other hand...there is nothing wrong about living an ordinary life

people like steve and others are here for changing the world, the others for maintaining it

dont think you waste your life because you dont "change" the world

we need both kind of people - everything is alright with us :-)

[040181991]

@fedinhorax he's not trying to decide what a "bigger" life is. theres nothing wrong with the life he described, he just means that most people settle for that because they dont know that more is possible.

[flower1921]

One of my best heroes!

[fedinhorax]

He is absolutely right. The sad things is this goes both for good and evil... For people who want new technologies, new friendships etc. But also for people who want ethnic cleansing, random car bombing and so on.

And I think it's wrong of him to decide what a 'bigger' life is. Why should it be wrong to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money? Why should everyone need to be revolutionary all the time? By that logic only a couple of hundred people in the world's history truly lived...