I Want Success Similar To That of Steve Jobs PDF

I want success similar to that of Steve Jobs.
What should I do?

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The intent is not to literally "become the next Steve Jobs." The intent of this question is to gather
useful tips that one can use to become successful. Perhaps successful in the scale that Steve Jobs
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I am 20 years old, can code but do not have computer science as a major. I don't like my major. I
want to become like another Steve Jobs, what are your valuable suggestions to me?
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Yishan Wong, TOO SOON?
Votes by Shashank Katkar, Radha Krishna Kanth Popuri, Pranesh Pandurangan, Eric Nelson,
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So many answers saying "you can't be the next Steve Jobs" or "you shouldn't." Even an
obnoxious one quoting the man himself! You must find that irritating, much the way people told
Steve Jobs all his life that he couldn't do what he wanted to do, but he did it anyway. You should
be admired for that but no - everyone will laugh at you and say you can't do it until you just go
and do it and turn it into the world's most valuable company.

Those people are naysayers. They think they are being clever telling you why you can't do
it. This answer will tell you how you can.

1. Identify your growth industry
You will need work in a fast-growing industry with the potential to impact a lot of people's
lives. Jobs worked in computers. Computers are still a growth industry, but you could also
consider biotechnology, alternative energy, or even commercial space travel. I'm sure there are
others.

2. Become close friends with a technical genius in that field
Steve Jobs had Steve Wozniak. He (largely) didn't build products himself. He understood the
technology well enough, but more than that he understood people and marketing. Find a
technical genius low on ego who is building something truly revolutionary, partner with him, and
then market and sell the shit out of that product.

3. Gain a larger perspective
Travel to different cultures, take mind-expanding drugs, whatever - ensure that you have
experiences that the rest of your peers do not.

4. Learn about people and understand their desires
You must do this in order to successfully market and sell things, and to create compelling
products that fulfill people's deepest needs.

5. Rinse and repeat
Use the success from your first venture to recruit more technical geniuses, push them very very
hard to create truly groundbreakingly useful things, ensure that they satisfy some deep need
people have, and then market and sell the shit out of those things.

----

Being an asshole and taking a big public fall aren't necessary to becoming another Steve
Jobs. Those were side-effects of the demons that drove him. What is important is that after
those setbacks, he did not stop doing what he was doing, and merely learned to do it
better. Thus, the last lesson:

6. Don't let anything stop you
You are also going to fail a lot. The better you do, the bigger the next step will be that you try
for, and the larger the potential failure. At some point you will fail. You will fail hard. Don't let
that stop you.

Get to work.

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Utkrisht Kumar Shandilya, Start-up enthusiast !
Votes by Luka ulig, Michael Howard, Connie Moore, Chacha Nehru, and 178 more.
"I want to put a ding in the universe" Steve Jobs

When Steve first looked at a computer, he found the noise of the fan disturbing. He asked the
question "Do you really need a fan in a computer", "Why is it needed", "Can we make alternate
changes and get it all quiet" and then you had Apple II series, the first silent computers around.
Asking questions is the first step to success.

You, sir, have asked a great question and I find some of the answers really harsh. Everyone has
role models, and congratulations on making a better choice than a lot of people would.

As you suggested, you want to be like another Steve Jobs. I will extend that list to people like
Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Pierre Omidyar and few more. I think you want to be an innovator
who can create breakthrough products, who can bring a disruption.

The first and foremost thing which distinguishes Jobs and others in his league is their strive to
change the world. It is not money, not success, not just about being your own boss or even
being a role model. The one thing that should drive your fire is changing the world.

To achieve that, the major criterion is the ability to challenge prevailing notions and question
the unquestionable.

Some of the qualities, which top notch innovators have, and which are not genetic (meaning you
can acquire it with time if you work hard on it) are

1) AssociateInnovators connect problems, fields or ideas that others cannot relate to. The
breakthrough will happen at intersecting disciplines and fields. Larry Page connected academic
research to page-search views. He wanted to use same logic of ranking research papers in
ranking search results for Google and we all know how successful it was. So, force yourself to
connect varied things in your experience and figure out a smarter way.
Steve Jobs claimed that the "beautiful typography available on the Macintosh would never
have been introduced if he hadnt dropped in on a calligraphy class at Reed College in
Oregon". You see how association makes you an innovator.

2) Question"I f I only had the right question" Albert Einstein.

The important and difficult job is never to find the right answer but the right question.
Research by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi confirmed that Nobel laureates were far better at
achieving breakthroughs once they found the right question to reframe their problem. Innovators
need to ask "why" and "why not" to leverage their leanings. Jason Fried of 37 Signals suggests
asking 5 whys for every problem your run into, for every opportunity you find.

So, if you start with making cool apps and amazing products keep asking the right questions
before you start looking for answers.

3) Observe"Observation is the big game changer in our company" Scott Cook, Founder,
Intuit.

Scott Cook hit on the idea for Quicken by watching his wife work on their finances and hearing
her complain about how frustrating and time consuming it was. So it was that observation
combined with an understanding of what personal computers could do well and not do well that
started Intuit
Observe how things work and what doesn't work.

Chuck Templeton, founder of OpenTable, witnessed these workarounds firsthand in 1998 when
his wife spent 3.5 hours tryingwithout any luckto get reservations at a desirable restaurant
when his in-laws visited them in Chicago. So Templeton launched an online app that is
essentially your own restaurant concierge service
These types of observations, connect common threads and provoke uncommon business ideas.

4) NetworkMike Lazaridis, founder of a small technology company called Research In
Motion (RIM), attended a 1987 trade show in search of new ideas. A speaker from a company
called DoCoMo described a wireless data system that it had designed for Coca-Cola. It allowed
vending machines to wirelessly signal when they needed refilling. Lazardis thought of creating
an interactive
pager, a product allowing people to wirelessly send data and information
to each other- this was the precursor to Blackberry smartphones.

So, for thinking outside the box, you need to link your ideas and knowledge with people who
play in other boxes.You get a different perspective when you network with diverse individuals to
find and test ideas. Network with experts and non-experts, people in different backgrounds and
similar, and bounce your ideas in progress. You might have your very own "Eureka moment".

Be a conference commando, connect with connectors, listen and speak, expand your circle.
"Can't join a club? Organize your own." Benjamin Franklin

5) ExperimentI havent failed . . . Ive just found 10,000 ways
that do not work. Thomas Edison

Good experimenters understand that although questioning, observing, and networking provide
data about the past (what was) and the present (what is),
experimenting is best suited for generating data on what might work in future.

Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss looked at the Netflix business model and wanted apply it to
high-end fashion, they set up some experiments to test their
idea. They bought a hundred dresses from designers; they rented dresses to Harvard undergrads,
letting young women try on the dresses first. The pilot was a success. Then they took photos of
dresses and ran a test in New York City where women rented a dress only from PDF photos and
descriptions of how they fit, and soon Rent The Runway was born.

These are some of the key areas an aspiring innovator should focus on to be the next innovator.
Even if you manage to be the best in all of them, there is a high probability you will not be the
next Steve Jobs but you will be on a path of becoming a successful entrepreneur for sure.

PS: Do not get disheartened by that quote from Mozart. There is ample evidence that Mozart was
morally corrupt, untruthful, lazy, unreliable, irresponsible, arrogant, and a generally unsavory
person.
"I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were
developed." Joesph Haydn.
Joseph Haydn wanted to be another Nicola Porpora and I consider him a better musician than
Mozart.

Sources:
Books by Clayton Christensen
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrarzi
Rework by Jason Fried

EDIT: Susan Boyle wanted to be like Elaine Paige and today she has more youtube hits than all
Elaine page songs combined. She shared the same stage with her. In some ways, she not only
matched to but surpassed her role model. And no wonder, she too was dismissed by cynics at
first as a loser.

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Anirvan Lahiri, Founder & CEO, InsightSplash
Votes by Kelly Taylor, Nick Ortiz, Cynthia Koo, John MacIntyre, and 109 more.
To answer your question without disparaging its premise, is an act of conceit. It implies one has
Jobs all figured out in some deep sense. Let's be clear: I can't claim that at all. I have never
worked at Apple or interacted with Job in any other capacity than as a consumer of his products
or as a student of his life. At the same time, I am drawn to respond because I find a lot of the
deification of Jobs unhelpful and unconstructive.

When someone hits the ball as far out of the park as consistently as Jobs did, it is worth seeking
to dissect that success. Dismissing him as a freak of nature who can never be emulated is perhaps
a bit too safe, a little too lazy. I respect the intention behind your question, so as best as I can, let
me try to give you an answer.

Somebody wise once taught me that fundamentally, there are two different ways of trying to
make sense of the world. Deductive and inductive. Deductive guys are like detectives - they
systematically look for evidence or indeed anything that might be evidence, weigh it all up, leave
no stone uncovered and finally reach a conclusion at the end of it all. Deductive thinking is the
bedrock of corporate life - it requires attention to detail, conscientious zeal and lots of hard work.
Most guys who succeed in corporate life tend to be deductive experts.

In contrast, inductive thinkers are hypothesis led - they start with a notion of what is important to
generating an ideal solution; their particular talent lies in an ability to generate hypotheses that
are economical, insightful and often very creative. Good inductive thinkers also need to be
integrative thinkers i.e. have the ability to combine perspectives across multiple disciplines -
their ability to do so directly correlates with their ability to generate non-obvious hypotheses that
the rest of the world misses.

Who was Jobs? Obviously many things but in my book above all, he was an unparalleled
inductive thinker (& doer of course - you wouldn't be talking about him if he had stopped at the
thinking). So the first answer to your question is learn to be inductive. In order to be inductive,
become a human sponge. Economics, engineering, literature, history, psychology, media and
advertising, business studies, natural and applied sciences, music - learn as much as you can.
Learn for the sake of learning - the applications will come down the line in ways you cannot yet
predict. You don't have to be a polymath i.e. equally expert in everything. But active curiosity,
an open mind, a diverse social circle, surrounding yourself with people smarter than you,
gathering cross-functional work experience - these will all help. So that is the first point and
actually the easy point.

The second point - inductive thinkers can be rather alarming to the rest of the world. The
corporate world prizes accountability or less charitably, 'ass - coverage' during decision making.
Inductive thinkers tend to be misfits in that world. Instead of meticulous research or expert
references or sleepless dedication, they ask their colleagues or supervisors to believe in their
creative leaps. "Trust me" they say. Sadly that is not the way the corporate world works.

If you want to be inductive, you are probably not going to be very successful in a corporate setup
UNLESS you become an entrepreneur like Jobs did. Entrepreneurship is the natural vocation of
inductive thinkers because a) it is multi-faceted and b) you can make the calls based on your
inductive vision without needing to go through gatekeepers. So if you want to go down that
route, forget corporate stardom - you will need to get your hands dirty and set out on your own.
As early as possible so that you have time to learn from your mistakes.

Third, some of the other traits that are usually associated with Job - incredible design aesthetic,
eye for detail, smooth talker (distortion field), aggression (assholeness), determination, etc. -
those were all important to his success but I am not sure they offer a template for other people to
emulate. Suffice to say, once you commit to being an entrepreneur you also commit to doing
whatever it takes to make your venture a success and that will be different for each entrepreneur
and each business.

Finally, Jobs was an amazing guy but dont forget he was at the right place at the right time. You
can't make the scale of his success a pre-condition of your life. Do cool things, do amazing
things that are inherently cool and inherently amazing because they genuinely make the world a
better place in some sense and make your heart skip a beat; don't spend your life chasing
somebody else's shadow. Seek inspiration, not replication. Good luck!

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James Francis Thompson, Quora user #24,391,147, fashionably late
Votes by Giulio Cassis, Amr Sharaf, Chris Beckman, Jorge Lora, and 2774 more.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." ~Steve Jobs


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Anonymous
Votes by Kelly Taylor, Samuel Greenlee, Scott Runkel, Kevin McAleer, and 106 more.
"Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought."
-Basho

"When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like If you live each day as if it was your
last, someday youll most certainly be right. It made an impression on me, and since then, for
the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, If today were the
last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer
has been no for too many days in a row, I knew I needed to change something. Remembering
that Ill be dead soon is the most important thing Ive ever encountered to help me make the big
choices in life, because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of
embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is
truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap
of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow
your heart."

-Steve Jobs

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Balaji Viswanathan, Cofounder Fin/Tech startup - Zingfin.com
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Ratul Saha, Rupert Baines, Keith Rabois, and 2223 more.
Sorry to burst your bubble. But, this conversation involving Mozart will be helpful for you.

In short, if you have to ask how you can become Steve Jobs, you can never become a Steve Jobs.
Start with simple apps and device hacks to work your way up. If you are lucky and are really
committed, maybe you can really leave a mark.

It took more than 3 decades even for Jobs to be truly recognized as an icon. In the meanwhile he
slaved hard, had a temporary rise to the peak, thrown from his perch, ridiculed, worked his way
back and prove himself all over again with kick-ass products. Now, you want to jump to the 20th
step directly without having any past of crossing even 1 step.

There is a top-secret recipe for success. Keep this secret mantra:

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Marcus Geduld, Shakespearean director, computer programmer, teacher, writer, likes dinosaurs.
Votes by Emma Saboureau, Jesse Lashley, Zachary Davidson, Pep Trias, and 234 more.
The difference between you and Steve Jobs is you want to be another Steve Jobs and he
wanted to create really cool stuff.

I'm joking, because I don't really know you. You may want to create cool stuff, too. I'm just
reacting to the way you worded the question.

Becoming someone like Jobs takes a mixture of innate talent, hard work, and luck. There's only
one of those three things you can control.

Find a passion, devote yourself to it like a monk, fail often, learn from your failures, and look at
all obstacles as problems to be solved. Keep working and working and working. Work for
decades. Keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone.

But find another goal besides "being another Steve Jobs." Find a goal that involves building
things, learning things, and/or making the world better. That's literally what Steve Jobs did.

In the end, you'll wind up being another Steve Jobs or you won't. It won't matter. You'll have
spend your life passionately, refusing to take the easy route. You'll have lived a life that's full to
bursting.

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Daniel Wipert Suggest Bio
Votes by Michael Wolfe, Morgan Cheng, Sean Rose, Phani Marpaka, and 63 more.
Stop wanting to be Steve Jobs. Go explore life. Try to do hard things. Fail a lot. Repeat. Then
look in the mirror. You are the person you want to be. The End.

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Jesse Hammons Suggest Bio
Votes by Shiv Kapoor, Anirvan Lahiri, Soo Basu, Varun Udupa, and 74 more.
This is Quora. You are going to get a lot of discouraging advice here from people who think
they know what they are talking about. Many of these people will be highly intelligent,
powerful, well known, successful or all of these. Few of them understand what it means to be a
creative person.

I think you need to recognize two things.

The first thing is that SJ never asked this question. However it is wrong to just stop there saying
to yourself "great so I'm not a prodigy" ... you don't need to be a prodigy to be amazing. And I
disagree with the "hard work" epithet. There are literally BILLIONS of humans working hard
every day, real hard, real work, harder than you or I will ever work. These hard workers will
never be SJ either. Hard work is nothing special, it is a given. Just by asking this question you
are indicating that you are willing to put in the work for your dreams.

The second thing derives from the first thing. Because you are asking this question, you are
fundamentally different from SJ or Mozart, two individuals who famously did not give a shit
about anyone else's opinion. This is crucial. Because since you actually *do* give a shit about
other people's feelings, your pathway will be different. You should leverage your empathy in
your designs (Design with a capital "D" is gushing empathy these days). But more importantly
you need to recognize that people are going to be shitting all over your ideas from day one. SJ
had a crucial advantage here, it's not that he didn't listen, SJ by definition *could not* listen to
other people, his empathic circuits were just not wired up that way. Hence criticism had no
impact on Steve, but it will have tremendous impact on you. Humans generally smile upon
empathy.

People say "work hard" but what exactly should you do? Keep a journal or a blog or anything,
some type of daily practice where you process and re-mix your ideas. Personally, I think a paper
journal is best because of the brain-hand-paper-touch-physicality connection. Develop your
creative process. Unless you are rich, you will need to earn a living. Earning a living usually
involves learning some kind of commercially viable skill. Set yourself up for a lifestyle where
your day job is subservient to your creativity and not the other way around. Find your level for
materialistic requirements, which is highly variable and very personal. The less stuff you need,
the more you can work on creative projects. But if you don't have enough materialism for your
physical health and emotional happiness, you won't doing *anything* whether creative or
otherwise. Emotional health is often a major obstacle for creative types. Take ownership of this,
figure out your needs, and do what you have to do to get those needs met. Don't get in the habit
of using Quora for support like this. As a creative person you will be on your own, for life. For
a creative, it's not just "lonely at the top" ... it's lonely everywhere. Figure out how dating is
going to fit into your lifestyle as a powerfully creative person. Trust me, this will be an issue,
and you need to tie it back to emotional health.

Your task will be to convert your "I DO care what other people think" attitude from a handicap
and turn it around to an advantage. Seek out supportive environments, i.e. places where you feel
good about yourself. Surround yourself with insightful advisors that will tell you the truth
without destroying your creative drive. International travel adventures on a shoestring budget
are probably a good idea. Also embark on inward journeys for self-knowledge, these will pay
off later in your career. **Understand that your day job is not who you are**. Push yourself to
take personal risks. Understand that these risks will add value to your soul, but this value may
not be recognized by outsiders, and you need to have the internal strength to stand up against
those types of negative external pressures.

Finally you ask specifically "what should I do?" ... the most important thing for you to do is
strengthen your character so you don't have to ask these types of questions in the future. Become
your own person. The answer to your question is self-evident and you don't need help from me
or anyone else to answer it.

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Charles Faraone, I Love Sunsets
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Ali Abbas, Ridwa Mousa, David Urquhart, and 3 more.
It might help to be an incredibly bright adopted child burdened with devastating psychological
needs associated with abandonment issues that keep you obsessing over validation and
recognition.

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Edward Martinez, Living it.
Votes by Aaron Diecker, Aaron Hall, Pep Trias, Tamika Adair, and 5 more.
Since you idolize him so much, let me offer some advice in his words:
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
It sounds meta but you can be like him by not being like him to the letter. Follow your passions
and do what you love. For Jobs, it was technology to make an impact in society. For you, it could
be different. Find it and pursue it relentlessly.

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Ian McCullough, I remember taking apart Macintosh Pluses and SEs with an Allen wrench.
Votes by Minhaz Mishu, Nathan Ketsdever, Ibrahim Ismail, David Benson, and 1 more.
Find a piece of technology that you find deeply & painfully inadequate to the point of
taking its existence as an offense to universal beauty.
Build something better.

Based on the details, however, I'm not certain that you actually want to know how to become
Steve Jobs. I would suggest looking at other questions within the Success and Becoming
Successful topics, or even more simply at questions like How do I choose my major? People in
college who talk about "becoming Steve Jobs" often are aspiring to "be impactful" or "leave a
mark on the world." You might also want to look at questions in the Changing the World topic.
How can we change the world?
How do you change the world?
Entrepreneurship: How can I deal with that "wanna build something great and change the
world" feeling while pursuing a undergraduate degree?
How have Entrepreneurs change the world?

You may discover that you want to leave a completely different mark on the world than Steve
Jobs left.

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Jon Moter, Software Engineer, Bay Area Stereotype
Votes by Mikael Koskela, Adam Ellison, Prateek Chawla, Alex McAdams, and 19 more.
Here's a simple 3-step process:
1. Read through all the Quora answers explaining how you'll never be the next Steve Jobs.
2. Recognize that there's a 99.9999% chance we're right.
3. Prove us wrong.

Good luck!


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Nitya Mallikarjun, where's the coffee?
Votes by Pep Trias and Kaushal Patil.
Steve Jobs wanted to, how should I put this - make a dent in the universe. Not be someone else,
for starters.

Just be <insert your name here>. Find your passion, and try to be the best at it. Perhaps it's just
the way your question is worded, but I think it's impossible to become another ANY person, let
alone Steve Jobs. We can only learn from the good and the bad in people and use it to inspire us,
and teach us, and push us beyond our limits. We all, without exception, have this amazing
opportunity to be someone completely unique, genuine and useful :P


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Malcolm Sargeant, Programmer since 1980's
Votes by Jonathan Bello, Phil Darnowsky, Carlos Amezquita, Amy s Melman, and 30 more.
You can change your name legally for a small fee.


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Eva Berlin, The Force is strong with me.
Votes by Vinay Kumar, Alfin Fransiscus, Ayman AL Azyzy, and Kevan Dagli.
The simplest, truest answer was said by the man himself: You've got to find what you love.

It sounds easy, but it's not. You have to find something that you'll love and keep working on
even when other people sneer at you, life tries to take away from you, and you yourself urge you
to stop.

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Van Wolverton, Theist, aging white male, husband, father, grandfather, pecksniff, all-around
curmudgeon
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Mounesh K Nandawadgi, Sumit Agarwal, Anonymous, and 1 more.
Snoop out something good that someone else designed, con them into letting you take a look at
it, copy it but repackage it in a pretty case, then convince people that buying it will prove that
they're cool, creative, and not just another drone. Then take all the credit yourself despite the fact
that others provided the hard work and creativity. And take the lion's share of the money, too;
after all, you earned it.

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Kendall Meade, I strive for evil genius, and chalk it up as a win if I can pass the 'smart-ass'
milestone after an all-nighter, while drunk, or both.
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Eric Chen, Bill Coleman, Jesse Lashley, and 5 more.
You should find a better role model. Steve Jobs was an unforgivable prick in his personal and
business life, and the things that made him successful are probably not things you have even
considered, or would be willing to devote yourself to if you knew. For example, he had a
steadfast devotion to the dollar, and did not care who he fucked over to get his next one. Every
business partner he's ever had has been fucked by him in some way because of this- from Steve
Wozniak getting shorted on a deal that he thought they would be splitting 50/50 (Jobs got closer
to 80/20 by misrepresenting the amount the deal was for. Woz would have simply given him the
money if he'd said he wanted it) to not covering his own costs (TLC had to spend ~50 million
USD to re-implement its' existing software on macintosh for school computers, as part of a deal
that Jobs set up and moved forward on- and that, by the time it came out that this wouldn't be
covered by the single most profitable computer company ever, it was too late for TLC to back
out without having lost more than 50 mil).

Was he a talented designer? in a certain sense, yes. But his talent in design had nothing to do
with the traditional sense of design- his real talent was to strip down the barest essence of an idea
to the bones and to cobble together a better idea from it. The iPhone, when it came out, was
more computer than phone, and couldn't hold a charge. The now-evident brilliance of the idea
was to change the nature of the interface so that the most important feedback for people- the
screen- was actually useful, and then to give them interesting things to do with that screen, and
the capability to do those things. The iPad was the same story again- if he'd lived longer, there
would be plenty of other things in this vein that he'd have come up with. And none of this talent
made it necessary for him to act like such a prick- so he still doesn't get points for it.

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Jim Broiles, Been there, got a T-shirt.
Votes by Preeti Bhonsle, Phil Darnowsky, Greg Gerakopoulos, Daniel Kinzler, and 15 more.
Please post this question in the correct topic: "I'm 20 something and I deserve to be rich. Focus
and hard work are just out of the question. What should I do?"

Update: To rebut the "you are special" answers, I would like to point out that one way to
motivate someone to high achievement is to tell them truthfully that they are no better
average. Sometimes a kick in the ass is what makes you great. Excessive positive affirmation
results in questions on Quora about how to become Steve Jobs.

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Nathan Ketsdever, Lifelong learner & Student of success.
Votes by Lubo Haranza, KF Deem, and Anonymous.
I think there were 4 aspects to Steve Jobs:
1) Visionary. Ability to inspire on a deep, deep level.
2) Deep commitment & persistence
3) Risk taking
4) A deep curiosity (in terms of typography, technology, design, and life)

Steve wasn't a singular genius like Mozart. He was mostly visionary & persistent and probably
had a built in ability to bring out the best in engineers and designers.

Cultivate those skills and characteristics....and you certainly put yourself in the position to be
much, much closer than you otherwise would have been.


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J. Alexander Curtis, Social Media Marketer
Votes by Lubo Haranza, Aran Johnson, Rishabh Jain, Suraj Patil, and 1 more.
Everyone is forgetting something... Steve Jobs wasn't a coder, he was a leader. Steve Jobs never
built the Apple I, or II, or Macintosh, or the iPod. He lead a great group of people that
individually couldn't have built anything so great, but together with his leadership could do
anything. That is what Steve Jobs did and that is who he is.

Steve Jobs knew how to hire, delegate and push people to the point that they could create great
things. You say that you do not want to be a CS major... well maybe business is better suited for
you. Afterall, had Steve Jobs actually graduated from college (which he never did), he would
have gone for an art degree or possibly a business degree (granted the computer science degree
didn't exsist during his college days, but even assuming it did, i don't think he would have done
that).

Remember, what made Steve Jobs great was how he ran his business. He knew how to build the
greatest culture surrounding any business of the time. He knew how to hire the right people, he
knew how to push his employees to the limit until they created the best products. He knew that
anything was possible and didn't live by the status quo. He didn't ask questions, he told, and he
went out and did.

So my advice for you... stop asking the question and go out and do... that will possibly make you
into the next Steve Jobs.

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Aravind Narain, Dreamer. Aspirant. Doer. Inspiration.
Votes by Mairaj Pirzada, Jon Tan, and Anonymous.
Do not let people know that you want to become the next Steve Jobs.
I'm sure no one will allow you to become one, even if you are really on the verge. This world is
full of competition.

If I were you, I would :

1. Stop telling others that I want to become like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or whatever.
2. Follow your heart. Do what it says.
3. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. - Even if you have become the next Steve Jobs :)

All the best !

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Steven Feeney, Co-Founded 3 Companies - @steven_feeney
Votes by Nathan Solla, Autymn Castleton, and Anonymous.
Read the book Bounce and understand only Steve Jobs and Bill Gates could have been Steve
Jobs and Bill Gates.

It was luck to be raised into a unique time (birth of home computing) and a unique place
(California) and just old enough to start a business but not so old they couldn't take risks due to
family pressures.

Bill Gates was the first 20 year old in the continental United States to reach 10,000 hours of
programming, widely believed to be the barrier between great and world class.

Bill used to get up at 3am, walk to a lc med department to program their computer then slip back
into bed and be woken for school by his mum.

You cannot be either of these people because you are on Quora, not coding.

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Trn Vinh, I over-think too many things
Votes by Xu Beixi, Brian Schmitz, and Anonymous.
If you post a question on here, you're probably thinking that a few people have the answers for
you.

No one can predict the future (even him, Steve Jobs). By the time he dropped out of college,
he knew what he would want to do (founded Apple). But who know how Apple would have
grown in the future? So, even if someone give you a suggestion about this topic, don't
even bother to take it seriously because no one can make a guarantee for that.

Find what you're interested in, and major in it. It sucks to hear you saying "I don't like
major." We all know college is costly. If you don't like your major, switch major.
As you said, you can code. But do you love to "code"? If yes, then yeah, major in
Computer Science.

If people know the answer for your question, we would have so many "Steve Jobs" in the world,
and Steve Jobs would be anything special anymore.

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William Matthies, Planning Consultant
Votes by Emiola O. Banwo, Stacie Walker, and Anonymous.
Begin by recognizing that wanting something, even if you want it much more than most, is not
enough to get it. You have to develop a plan to achieve your goal, revise it as assumptions,
strategies, and tactics prove false, all the time working as hard as you can to make it happen. If
you do all that you may have a 50% chance of success.

This is about "change", an area of expertise for me, and you may wish to stop by my blog (The
Coyote Insight blog on planning and change) to learn more.


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Ali Abbas, What doesnt kill you makes you only stronger
Votes by Willis Michelle, Kaushal Patil, Ali Hassan, Waqar Hameed, and 2 more.
Trying to become someone else is such a waste of who you really are - Kurt Cobain

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Pragati Srivastava Suggest Bio
Votes by Eric Bowersox, Eliza Karki, Gaurav Manchanda, Ranjeet Sahoo, and 2 more.
forget about the successs and just chase your dream !

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Shawn Greene, Cold calling & sales expert
Votes by Aaron Diecker, Mahesh R Ostwal, and Anonymous.
Too bad so many didn't bother to read your post, You said you want to become LIKE
ANOTHER Steve Jobs -- not exactly like him. I say go for it.

It's great to have role models and people who inspire you! Though you could read up on Jobs and
others, it's fine to work with your own impression and beliefs of what being like Jobs may mean.
As some people have suggested, it can help to get clear on what that means to you.

Once you have clarified what emulating this role model means to you, consider the tools you
have now and what you may need to add or change.

One of the tools you have now is apparently you are in school. And so a very good change would
be to get computer science as your major. There are two reasons to make this change as opposed
to dropping out:

1) One of the differences between you and Jobs or Woz or similar role models is that there have
been a lot of changes in computer sciences between their time and now -- your time. Studying
computer sciences gives you a strong foundation from which you can leap and get creative.

2) Computer sciences comes closest to what interests you. This interest can "feed" your mind and
soul while you complete a degree. That degree will almost certainly come in handy down the
road for a whole ton of reasons that may not be obvious now.

Good luck.


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Richin Jose, The Crazy One http://www.richinjose.com/
Votes by Hoang Lee, Sudip Ghosh, Nishant Kukreja, and Anonymous.
Heres to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the
square holes. The ones who see things differently. Theyre not fond of rules. And they have no
respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About
the only thing you cant do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human
race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people
who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Learn to focus

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it
means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick
carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done.
Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things. - Steve Jobs

Be long term greedy

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So
you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. - Steve Jobs

Attention to details

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right. - Steve Jobs

Keep it simple

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make
it simple. But its worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. -
Steve Jobs

Follow your heart

Your time is limited, so don't waste it 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 important, have the courage to follow your heart and
intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is
secondary. - Steve Jobs

Do great work

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do
what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you
haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when
you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. -
Steve Jobs

To build a castle you need bricks

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that
the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. - Steve Jobs

Challenge the status quo

"Think Different." - Steve Jobs

Be crazy

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." -
Steve Jobs

Last but not the least...

Does opportunity know your address?

"Be the kind of person who doesnt wait for opportunity to knock your door; go knock or rather
smash the door of the opportunity." - Richin Jose

At the end of the day

The difference between success and failure is, how hard you want, want you want!

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." - Steve Jobs

In life never be satisfied by what you have achieved in the past, because if you do so, you'll
eventually fall behind.

Wise people know that they can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a fool from trying. When you
don't know what's the limit, then you don't have a limit.

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Robert J. Kolker, I am the little boy who told the Emperor that he is bare-ass naked
Votes by Abdolmajid Roohnia and Danita Crouse.
You did not live the life of Steve Jobs, you were not presented with the opportunities to make
the choices he did. Each of us, you, I, and everyone else is the product of his own history and
choices.

However, there is nothing in the above that says you cannot become a successful businessman.


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Phil Parkman, machine-taught machine learning
Votes by Louis Hatzis, Suraj Patil, and Anonymous.
I'd read Outlierswith a grain of salt. It was being born in 1955 that made Steve Jobs, Bill
Gates, Scott McNealy and a host of lesser lights successful and rich. They were at the right age,
and had the right attitude when the technology enabled a major breakthrough. Just like surfing,
once they had established their place on the wave; nobody else could drop in. The next wave was
not as abrupt, but I think you've missed the wave that enriched Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg,
etc. Your best chance is to find the next onewhich could be 3-D printing, machine learning,
popular genetics, robotics, Internet of Things?

Whatever you do - don't try to build smartphones.

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Varun Udupa, an African implosive aerophone
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Shruti Mandhani, Naveen Gn, Faisal Ahmed, and 12 more.
Some believe this helps.

I'm kidding, in case you got serious about this.


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Rishabh Jain, Entrepreneur
Votes by Mahesh R Ostwal, Lubo Haranza, Vishal Bansal, Anurag Wagh, and 15 more.
This should really inspire you I hope -

You just have to work hard and be the first you. I personally find Steve Jobs to be an inspiring
figure in my journey to make good and cool stuff. You could take a leaf or two out of his book,
but you can never be him.

The first step to become a visionary is to observe and see the problems of the world and act upon
them. Now think of it. Xerox PARC had already discarded the GUI and the Mouse. Had Steve
Jobs and his team not realized it's world-chaning potential, do you think you would have been
asking this question on Quora in the year 2013? You don't need to invent anything to be called a
visionary. But you need to have the understanding of a particular thing which can sell, and sell
very well. Something which can change the way the world works.

That's what he used to be good at. Identifying the problem and working on it. Of course he used
to take all the credit most of the times. But that's how he was..

So remember. You've just gotta be you. You have to identify the problems of the world and work
on solving them either through your own expertise or by the means of teaming up with others. If
you are able to do that, things will automatically fall in place. :)

Oh and one more thing. Be Shameless, Foolish and Hungry. Hope that helps!

P.S.: Congratulations. Your question is already viral. So you have made the first step to gaining
attention. Something that Steve Jobs was very good at.

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Thanh Pham Suggest Bio
Votes by David Benson, Tamika Adair, Hemanadhan Param Anandan, and Anonymous.
The first step to being like Steve Jobs is to not be like him. He made his career out of being a
rebel and he represents the <1% of successful people in the world.

That being said, do you want to become an entrepreneur or design visionary? Do you have ideas?
Have you bounced them off your mentors or even potential customers? Can you build a team and
lead? Can you bootstrap your business? Do you know who to talk to for supply, marketing,
distribution, etc.?

The first thing you need to learn is to ask the right questions and seek out those answers. Asking
vague questions does nothing for you. If you ask a specific question, several new specific
questions will spawn from the answer you receive.

The second thing you need to learn is how to change. You don't like your major. Why? Why
haven't you changed it? Is there are requirement for doing so? What have you done to move
closer to the major you want? Are you willing to work hard to get there?

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Peter Koepke, Social being
Votes by Michael Fine, Bryce Johnson, Hamilton Verissimo, John Corbin Qian, and 25 more.
Do you think Steve would have been on Quora asking this question?

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Susyn Duris, Tech Marketer. Loves to create and curate good content.
Votes by Jonathan Bello, Gautam Bajaj, Abdolmajid Roohnia, Chriss Matt, and 1 more.
You are a unique person. Don't be like Steve. Be the best YOU you can be. Help others anytime
you can. And be grateful. You do those three things, and you WILL be successful.


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David Thompson Suggest Bio
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Van Wolverton, Siddharth Prasad, and Kakul Singh.
People should be weary of those in society that want to be like Steve Jobs as these people are
sociopaths in the making. Steve has told society that sociopaths and their behaviour is
acceptabke and encourages it. These people will prey upon those in society without stong morals,
conviction, and are weak in their own definition of who they are. Those wirh morals and a strong
want of self will stand clear of these people. Steve Jobs didn't move humanity as some have
claimed. He sold humanity out.

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Morgan Keys, UX Designer, information scientist, and avid wonderer.
Votes by Charles Faraone, Minhaz Mishu, and Abdolmajid Roohnia.
There are a lot of ways to achieve greatness, but trying to be great is not one of them.

Really all you can do is spend every waking moment focusing on something you care deeply
about. Ask and answer every question about it, learn and master every practical skill involved
with it, and try to understand when people fail at it and why. Obsess over it.

And remember, anyone can work hard. Working hard is table-stakes.


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Ilya Zlotin Suggest Bio
Votes by Phil Darnowsky and Jesse Lashley.
Read isaacsons book and you'll understand, you don't want to be another Steve Jobs. Or, if you'll
not, you won't become one anyway


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Sagar Ubhare, Be happy, don't hurt others
Vote by Julie Prentice.
you cant replicate other person if you want intend to become a succesful entreprenur you have to
really put a lot of effort


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Shashwat Rastogi, Student, Entrepreneur, Traveller
Votes by Marcia Eastmond, Jianfeng Tu, Somanath Mehanath, Karanpreet Singh Aulakh, and 13
more.
"There is no secret ingredient. It's just you." - KungFu Panda.

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Liz Laurents, High Spark of Low-Heeled Girls
Votes by Danila Shikulin and Anonymous.
Stop chasing and yearning for "success" ... Steve Jobs' or anyone else's. Bring something of
value to the world.

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April Nielsen Suggest Bio
He was good at marketing his product in the face of those who thought he was over the top
crazy. Rather than give up he kept pushing until he got backers. He recognized genius and
partnered with brilliant people and took advantage of their ingenuity and inventiveness.
He was strange as all get out, and could be unkind and unforgiving. Read his biography if you
haven't already.
I would say, never give up, recognize talent and partner with it. You must be able to take failure,
disappointment and those who may try and intimidate you, and keep pushing ahead in the face of
all that. If you have $11 in your pocket invest it all in the product you support. Failure eventually
leads to success if you are lucky and smart.


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Jom Macasaquit Suggest Bio
Votes by Matt deCourcelle and Anonymous.
Follow your heart & have faith in you.


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Samuel Greenlee, alive for a quarter century.
Votes by Cassidy Rosas and Anonymous.
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you how to become another Steve Jobs.

What I can say, though, is that I would suggest you (re)consider your aspirations. When you say
that you want to be another Steve Jobs, what is it exactly that you want to be? Do you want to be
someone who designs products and solutions that improve the lives of people? Do you want to
be exceedingly wealthy? Do you want to be famous and respected? Do you want to be a
successful entrepreneur?

I would suggest that these goals vary pretty widely in their value, but I am not sure that I can say
more without knowing what it is about Steve Jobs that you wish to emulate.


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Sam Boosalis, wanderer, witness
Vote by Francisco Souza Homem de Mello.
be born socially intelligent, have great taste, and get lucky.


3

Lucas Leopoldino Suggest Bio
Votes by Malcolm Sargeant and Sivakumar Thulasimani.
First step: loggin your facebook
Second step: Go in Settings account
Third step: Delete your account
Fourth and necessary and accurate step: GO STUDY!

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Nathan Solla, Entrepreneur,Tech Startup Investor
Vote by Chris Hofbauer.
I highly recommend that you read the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. In it you'll discover,
among other things, that you'll need 10,000 hours of practice to master your skill and hone your
ability.
Then read Good to Great by Jim Collins. You'll learn, among other things, that you need to
partner with the right people, because now, after 10,000 hours of practice, YOU are the right
person for those RIGHT people to partner with.

And finally, you and your team of right people must get lucky (which means work as hard as you
can maximizing the best opportunities you can find).

College is advantageous not because of the knowledge you'll acquire, but because of the
relationships you'll foster.
Follow these steps and you will become the next Steve Jobs in about 40 years.


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Sarat Nair, Apple, Steve, iOS, Mac. I love these four!
Votes by Lubo Haranza, Autymn Castleton, and Anonymous.
Here's my take. I would give you few examples.
He was really a hard worker - Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell on Steve Jobs at Atari and
Finding the Next Jobs
Don't try this at home. He was a jerk! (16 Examples Of Steve Jobs Being A Huge Jerk,
Be a Jerk: The Worst Business Lesson From the Steve Jobs Biography). I won't say he's a
jerk but he has certain characters which are not really suitable when working with people.
But that's the driving factors to achieve his greatness.
He was a perfectionist. (Steve Jobss Perfectionism and Apples Success, Execs
remember Steve Jobs as a tireless perfectionist). If you read his biography, you can
understand how much effort he put to bring perfect components and design for the
devices Apple produced (e.g. A Story About Steve Jobs, Steel Balls and Gorilla Glass
(You, with the Cracked Phone: Read This) | TIME.com and here's the icon ambulance
Icon Ambulance One Sunday morning, January 6th, 2008 I was)
He was not leading a typical mammoth company. He was driving world's biggest startup.
(How Apple works: Inside the world's biggest startup - Fortune Tech)
When people talked about success, he talked about failures at Stanford. Though failed at
several things (like Apple Lisa, NeXT etc.) he was a tireless hardworker to see the
triumphs.
He's an artist, minimalist and product designer by heart. Apple Products, Apple Store,
PIXAR's Steve Jobs building (recently PIXAR's main building was named after him)
Pixar Names Building After Steve Jobs
He followed his passions, not really money (though Apple devices are stands out and
expensive ever since the company is founded)
He created his own world around him. Made the whole world curious and listen Apple
(him).
An excellent negotiator
Reality distortion field
Steve was a Control freak - (Steve Jobs Is A Genius Control Freak , Steve Jobs was a
'control freak' but 'not intellectually insecure'

You can get a lot more insights on following news, reading his biography and other resources on
the web.

But are these reasons made him the legendary CEO and co-founder? Not exactly. Whatever
mentioned above are just his personal characters which are reflected in his work.

From his famous graduation speech at Stanford, we listened how he followed what his heart said
and how it was all connected back! We hardly listen to our heart. What you're seeking is the
success of Steve Jobs. He was not really wanted to be someone else. He admired people like Bob
Dylan, John Lennon Beatles etc. but end of the day he was Steve Jobs himself.

Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky and Insanely Simple Insanely Simple: The Obsession That
Drives Apple's Success: Ken Segall: 9781591844839: Amazon.com: Books exposes some
interesting insight on how Apple works?

He was ready to challenge the status quo. Despite of the mammoth size of Apple, the company
remained cool and small inside. I could not find any relevant link for this but, just two people
were involved in releasing iOS version of Safari. He was able to convince people to do their best
and achieve the best results.

He was very keen to maintain the Apple as most competitive company in terms of employees
and products. As he said once, "We are really proud of what we did at Apple. Equally we are
proud about what we not did"

He was able to bring focus of the available resources towards the most important products at
Apple. If you consider, Apple sliced down too many products to few best products. Focus and
being minimal, that's the best thing he did on his second coming of Apple. You will get fired if
you can't fit with Apple's high performance culture.

Another advantage for him was he was an early player in many industries. Like PC,
smartphones, tablets, new age MP3 players etc. But he has created his own opportunities and
lead by example. Being an early player isn't something granted that's we call visionary!

He was very powerful to make things happen. Your interests and Steve Jobs interests are
different and the way he approaches his passions are entirely different. We can find lot of
connections in one person but mostly we are two different people.

I wish you all the best to follow your heart! There where you start and keep on doing till your
end!


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Kamal Karan Matham, Eats with his elbows on table
Votes by Serkan Trkolu, Charles Faraone, Gautam Bajaj, Thomas Ince, and 1 more.
To start, come to India and try searching for peace

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Carla Shields, Engineer
Votes by Andrew Medal, Van Wolverton, Siddharth Sharma, and Pranav Verma.
Find a "Woz", then "Steve Jobs" him on the Atari contract.

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Kevin Richardson, Investor Relations & Private Equity for Canadian Technology Companies.
Just be yourself. If it happens, then great. If it doesn't, but you stick to you own goals and
dreams - even better.


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Lance Robotson, Snake Oil Sales-Bard
Votes by Naveen Kumar, Stephen CM, Michael Hu, Toby Thain, and 4 more.
stay hungry, stay foolish, take LSD and drop out of college, go to india and read ayn rand. avoid
western medicine at a crucial stage in your life threatening illnesses

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Dan Feld, Creator & Host of Prologue Profiles
Vote by Bruno Ghisi.
Steve Jobs was not trying to be another someone. I would start there.


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Avi Tshuva, dharma in every action (i wish)
Votes by Shlomi Kirly, Nathan Solla, Kenneth Mark Dsouza, Shweta Humnabadkar, and 4
more.
Change your name.
It will work. You'll immediately become another Steve Jobs, literally. No degree needed.
No, i don't think that's what you meant, but i think that clarifying with yourself what you really
mean, exactly, thoroughly, is the first and most important thing that you'll do.
Also, if you answer that question to yourself too quickly - in less than a few years, that is - then
you're probably wrong.


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Rod Primrose, pagan, puppeteer, anti-orthodox anything, dog lover
Get a photo of him, make a mask, go 'trick or treat'.
Or really listen to the other advice reality checks.


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Kshitij Chawla Suggest Bio
Vote by Van Wolverton.
Yishan Wong said it right. I would like to add something.

It is good to have Steve Jobs as a kind of end game, someone you admire, and want to leave
a similar impact on the world. However, exactly becoming Steve Jobs is not something you
wanna do.

The first rule in trying to be Steve Jobs is, stop trying to be Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was who
he was because he understood that he was no one but himself. He might have people he
admired and learned from but he was his own man. He never tried to be like some one else.
He figured out what worked for him and didn't and leveragwed that, instead of following
the herd.

So you must understand yourself, that your uniqueness can be utilized in a different way.
Jobs succeeded because of a lot of things, some good some bad. He had an eye for design,
which you may or may not have, but you may be brilliant at coming up with new ideas or
executing them or managing other people to do it in a way they couldn't have done on their
own.

He did not create anything original, but he saw what had been created and figured out how
to make it all work well together, the ability to 'synthesize'.

He also paid a lot of attention to every detail. Obsessive level. Not everyone can sustain
such obsessiveness, based on their personality, so you should find your strength, figure out
what it is that you bring to the table.

He was also an asshole to other people. He got away with it and still got his people to work
well because of his other accomplishments, but most people might not have.


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Matt Walsh, startup founder
Relentlessly advocate the consumer above all else in profitable ways.


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Anonymous
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Lance Robotson, Jishnu Bhattacharya, Venkannareddy Yamnur, and 3
more.
Option 1 - Pop some LSD. Hang around geeks and become best friends with a talented
specimen. Travel to India to realize that mysticism and spirituality are overrated - come back
and start a firm with aforementioned geek. Screw your friend out of $400, but go on to tell the
world how money is immaterial and we should all try to change the world.

Option 2 - Stay home and read. Try to understand where technology is headed and create a
product that simplifies the lives of people. Oh and, LSD use is discretionary here.


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Krishna Chidambaresh, http://www.yourcopysucks.in
Vote by Lubo Haranza.
What makes someone Steve Jobs or just about anyone is an evolutionary process so complex to .
But, many traits have its origins from some really fundamental system of thoughts and principles
which then manifests itself in the way you make choices and how you live. Here's a few I
observe about Steve that resonates with other great thinkers -

Sharpen your senses. It will make you see things others don't. It's like how when the lights are
suddenly out and you think you see nothing and in a couple of mins you are able to see through
the darkness, a bit.

Trust your intuition - when your senses are sharp, you 'sense' things all the time. They are
sometimes plain miracles but it's not. It's as if you can feel what's right and what's wrong and feel
the conviction to act under complex circumstances.

Be incredibly vulnerable to influence - you gotto let things move you.. Subtler things .. Like
your own thoughts and others'. When you have restrained your senses, your mind seeks purity.
Part of that purity is not to let vanity like power or wealth influence you much. You find it insane
when others suck into it. You let yourselves seek for higher pleasures. The ones which costs less.
you have simpler needs. That makes you eternally an underdog. You think big, do big and be
big.

Steve might be a jerk and closed to ideas generally but he lets great ideas grow on him..His heart
yearns for purity.. If he saw that stone that he can 'feel' is perfect and pure for his purpose
(building an Apple store), he becomes obsessive and wants it no matter what. He is easily
tempted to purity. When someone came up with 'Think different', he was moved to tears. He's
cried a few times thinking just that. He felt that touch of 'purity'. That's how much he can be
influenced and that's where he gets his passion to influence the World.

But none of this might turn you into Steve Jobs. It would turn you into someone, someone wants
to be.

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1

Jarka Turkov, Psychology & Adul Education Student
Be yourself as much as you can and make anyone else desperately DESIRING to be another you.
Try coaching if you don't know where to begin.


1

David Kim, dklounge.github.io
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as night the day, that you will be
you, your own hero, your own Steve Jobs.


2

Anonymous
Vote by Yuval Karmi.
Ok that's easy. Just follow these simple directions:

1. Exhume the corpse of Steve Jobs. Make sure you have the leather work merit badge and a
good knife and then make a cool suit out of his skin.

2. Wear Steve Job's skin all the time. If your mom or your girlfriend tells you it's gross, tell them
to fuck off.

3. Act like a super-dick. This is important. Do something really fucked up like get your girlfriend
or your mom (see step 2) pregnant and then disown the child.

4. Make sure you scream a lot.

5. Get really good at controlling people. You are going to need a lot of engineers to do your
bidding, plus a lot of people to buy your products. If you want to succeed, mind control over
both will be critical.

6. Change your name to Steve Jobs. I should have put this first but I figured it was kind of a no-
brainer.

7. Hire a bunch of British people and then put them in your commercials so that people will hear
their accents and know that your products are super-cool.

8. Take a bunch of pictures of yourself looking directly into the camera in front of a white
background. You might want to grin because you are rich and powerful, but don't. If you show
teeth, you will fail. Itch your chin and try to look slightly aroused. Make sure these pictures get
published somewhere. Don't forget to wear your Steve Jobs skin.

9. Try and say big words like "revolutionize" and "revolutionary" as much as possible. If you
aren't saying them at least once a sentence, you will fail.

10. Become the CEO of Windex. Next, start building a bunch of stores out of pure glass for your
"computer" company. Then, get rich when you sell millions of gallons of Windex to yourself.
Don't tell anybody about being the owner of Windex.

That's about it. The hardest part is going to be getting started. Usually it's easiest to exhume
someone when you are rip-roaring drunk so make sure to stop by the liquor store on the way to
the cemetery.


3

Anonymous
Votes by Ali Abbas and Akash Reddy.
Get yourself fired,preferably by Board of directors.


2

Anshul Giri, _
Vote by Xu Beixi.
Invent.Innovate.


2

Gabriel Harper, Owner, Intavant
Vote by Carl Grant.
Be the first you.


3

Taimur Abdaal, http://www.speedsums.com
Votes by Ahmed Zain and Yuval Karmi.
No man achieved greatness by trying to emulate somebody else. You should aim to be
remarkable in your own way and then maybe one day someone will ask the question 'What
should I do to become like [your name here]'.


2

Stle H. Bjrdal, Apple
Vote by Sreekanth Karumanaghat.
Follow your heart, develop a conscience, instill in yourself a desire to want-to-change-the-world,
dream big, and don't believe those who says you can't succeed.


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Sravan Sarraju, An ordinary engineer.
Votes by Nina Blasberg, Faisal Memon, Suraj Patil, Tejasvi Sarraju, and 1 more.
Answer is pretty simple and here it goes
Identify your passion
Think how you can use your passion to build/make something which can either make
world a better place or make a person's life more easier or happier.
Convince yourself first that what you believe is right
Pursue it like a monk, work hard hard hard regardless of the result. Work on it as if you
are born to achieve it and nothing else.
Start convincing others and make them believe in what you believe , what you built and
why they need it.
People discourage you, bully you, sabotage you, make fun of you, ridicule you. Take
them all with grace and keep pursuing your mission and continue building your stuff and
in parallel convincing people.
Monetize what you built and sell it to those who are convinced about your mission and
your product.
Keep doing this regardless of the pace, volume , probability and chances of your success.
Remember you are born in this world to do this.
Luck favors the brave. One day there will come a tipping point when majority will start
believing in what you believed on day one and there you go.
You are Steve Jobs!

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Carolina Wiegering Ravettino Suggest Bio
Vote by Anonymous.
Find something you really want to do and commit to it. I think success is measured by oneself in
the end (by being satisfied or happy with whatever we're spending our time on) and that Steve
Jobs was more "famous" than he was "successful".


3

Matt deCourcelle, Information Junkie, Bitcoin Evangelist, Thin Film Engineer
Votes by Thomas Varghese and Anonymous.
We all have idols and all aspire to be like other people to some degree so don't let anyone fool
you.

Much of Steve Jobs success though was due to location, timing, vision and passion.

Ultimately the guy was a great UX designer with excellent intuition. He was a visionary and was
very willing to sacrifice everything for his vision. He also refused to let society constrain him
and he always believed he was "special".

If you want to increase the odds of being as successful as Jobs you should try some or all of the
following:
Think BIG. Really BIG. Find a big problem people have and try to build a business
model around it. Elon Musk is a BIG thinker. Watch a lot of sci-fi movies.
Movie to a high-tech area like the valley.
Get into a hardware startup.
Study and learn more about design.
Learn how to sell using simple concise language.
Learn showmanship and how to sell. Give the people what they want.
Probably study something like Zen Buddhism so you learn to operate more on intuition.
Study the psychedelic experience and try to expand your consciousness
Try fasting and maybe some bizarre diets, this will actually open your mind as well.
Learn how to recruit great talent, this goes hand and hand with the selling part
Travel the eastern world and live amongst the people (not in resorts)
Refine your bullshit meter
Stay foolish (which it sounds like you already are :) )
Stay hungry
Most importantly, don't have any expectations, just be.


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Gerardo Mendez Suggest Bio
Votes by Autymn Castleton, Carlos Mendez, and Mounesh K Nandawadgi.
These are the 66 Tips I recommend you to follow. (The 66 secrets of Steve Jobs)

1. Born in the right place, at the right time
2. From a young age, your parents made you feel special
3. Sensitivity to discerning what people want
4. Nurture your spirituality to have vision and mental clarity
5. Travel and meditate to open your mind
6. Using Zen to strengthen your intuition beyond intellect
7. Face your fears and heal disturbing emotions
8. Be sure that you can influence the world that you fell in; you do not have to live it the way it
appears to be
9. Grow your vanity for being recognized and for winning. Are you a winner?
10. But in the end, dont work only for the money
11. Work in something you love and are passionate about
12. Perfection: obsess over making the best possible product
13. In the intersection between the humanities and the sciences
14. Analyze the bottom-line of what you want to accomplish every time you want to do
something in your life, and act
15. Find a partner (or partners) who complements your weaknesses
16. Have a clear philosophy
17. Obsess over creating a great company and not just excellent products
18. You should be intensely geared to action
19. Trust that it can be done, and dont allow it to be any other way
20. Be insistent and determined to count with the best suppliers
21. Create a culture of a clean, aesthetic image in the company
22. Focus your efforts and those of the company
23. Identify markets with potential led by second-rate products
24. You should be a step (or several steps) ahead of the industry
25. Even if your new product is wonderful, you should be thinking of the next one (continuous
innovation)
26. Reinvent the company when you dont have space to move to
27. Do not be afraid to cannibalize your own products. Do it yourself before someone else does it
for you!
28. If you have to start everything over from scratch, do it. Your product must be as close to
perfection as possible
29. Correct the strategic direction each time you notice your original plan is not working as you
expected
30. Integrate the company like a very well-interconnected team
31. Choose an enemy and wage an ideological war. You are the savior
32. Motivate your team, identifying an enemy to beat
33. Surround yourself with the most intelligent people
34. Hire people with passion
35. Do the work interviews yourself
36. Make your team feel that they are part of a special, different fraternity that will change the
world
37. Create a fun work environment and be generous with your collaborators
38. Take your team to retreats to keep the vision and the mystique
39. Fire them if they do not achieve their objectives
40. Employees must be motivated to share their ideas and challenge the manager if needed
41. Be honest with your employees about the quality of their work
42. When you think that it is fundamental to do so, steal good ideas to integrate them into your
product
43. To be innovative, connect elements of different disciplines and/or industries
44. Creativity is produced during spontaneous meetings
45. Make your products have the wow factor, but also simple to use
46. To make the best product, build what you desire to use
47. Design should dictate engineering and not vice versa
48. Instill passion in your marketing team
49. Make your brand stand for something
50. Invest in yelling at the world that your product can transform for the better
51. If you made the best product, speak about it with the passion of a showman!
52. Invest what is necessary to meet the demands of your philosophy without paying too much
attention to $
53. Do not go crazy with the costs, because the price of your product should be attractive
54. Marketing is too important to leave to the marketing department
55. Create a ritual, a story behind every product packaging
56. Settle into publicity. The power of the media
57. Sell dreams and emotions, not products
58. Everyone in the company must have measurable responsibilities
59. Demand results and quality in a blunt way
60. At all costs, protect confidential information related to new products and innovations
61. Processes above management
62. As CEO, hold meetings permanently
63. Be disciplined in the reviewing progress
64. Control the details
65. Key executives of the business must be targeted by the product and not sales
66. To negotiate, begin by putting the other party in a disadvantaged position

Source: TIPIDIA

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Phil Darnowsky, I have been alive for some time now.
Votes by Harsh Jha and Carl Grant.
Aim higher. As an anon points out here, Jobs was not someone you should emulate.


1

Liu Jiao Suggest Bio
I think the success one people make can't be replicated by another person.
Maybe you should find your own way to successthe same goal,but the different path.


2

Nikola Gjakovski, Blogger, Life coaching
Vote by Sundeep Kumar.
Steve Jobs struggled in school. He didnt like school because he knew he had something
additional, something more than the written knowledge. After the first semester Jobs dropped out
of school which led him into the biggest life accomplishment : The Macintosh software and
Apple computers.

Its pity to say that he didnt use the knowledge from school, but his life journey made the
technology that most of the world relies on up to this day. Jobs once told that taking LSD was
one of the two or three most important things he ever did in his life. He told that this psychedelic
drug open his mind and made him see the world from another perspective.

This legend had one clever statement. No matter what happens in your life struggles in school (as
he had) or an unsuccessful career path (as he obviously didnt have) every aspect will somehow
help you down the road.

During the interview in 2007 on D show, Steve gave his dazzling statement that goes:

You need a lot of passion for what youre doing because its so hard. Without passion, any
rational person would give up. So if you are not having fun doing it, if you dont absolutely love
it, you are going to give up. And thats what happens to most people, actually. If you look at the
ones that ended up being successful in the eyes of society, often times it is the ones who love
what they do, so they could persevere when it got really tough.

And the ones that didnt love it, quit. Because they are sane, right? Who would put up with this
stuff if you dont love it? So it is a lot of hard work and it is a lot of worrying constantly. If you
dont love it, you are going to fail.

However, actions bring consequences and his consequence was apple computers. Can you
imagine this astonishing attainment made by a group of people led by this legend? Of course we
can imagine but imagination will bring us nowhere except we take actions.

Not long after Jobs did engage at Homestead High School, he was introduced to his future
partner, Steve Wozniak, through Wozniaks friend. Steve Wozniak (his name mate) was
attending the University of Michigan at the time. In a 2007 interview with ABC News, Wozniak
spoke about why he and Jobs combined so well: We both loved electronics and the way we
used to hook up digital chips, Wozniak said: Very few people, especially back then had any
idea what chips were, how they worked and what they could do. I had designed many computers
so I was way ahead of him in electronics and computer design, but we still had common
interests. We both had pretty much sort of self-reliant attitude about things in the world.

After Jobs dropped out of school he spent 18 months or (year and a half) on creative classes.
Later on he took a position as a video game designer at Atari. Knowing that he had something
that cannot be revealed unless he opened up his mind with psychedelic drugs, he left Atari and
went on a journey to India to experiment with the drugs and became Buddhist.

After returning from India Jobs (age 21) fused with his name mate Wozniak and started Apple
computers in the legendary garage. After not-so-good impact with the first Apple computer, they
made Apple 2 that had major impact and they made it extremely popular.

Apple went public on December 12 1980 with 1.2 BILLION dollars on the first day. In the next
few years lost its market share to IBM. By 1985 Apple computers forced Jobs to resign. Once
Jobs was forced out of Apple he picked himself up pretty quickly, he grabbed the people he
wanted to involve in his new company named NeXT. They started building the new company.

Steve bought Pixar animations which made him the CEO while still actively developed his
company. NeXT was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City,
California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the
higher education and business markets. Everything that apple had including the operating
system, the design had its origins in next.
Later on Apple purchased NeXT in 1986 and eventually returned Jobs to CEO his software
called Next step evolved into MAC OS 10 which led to apple technology revolution.

The iPhone is single most important device of the modern era. It is the smart phone which is this
all-in-one device and so it is conceptually the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad.

What apple really has done is raised the world awareness of design and functionality. People
look at things thins and its like they MUST have them, and once they have them they love them,
just like an addiction. In 2011 Forbes magazine named apple the most valuable company in the
world.
Following the same year, the long battle with pancreatic cancer, the unforgettable legend lost his
life.

The twisting story that Steve Jobs lived is proving that one man along with his managing skills
and exceptional master-mind can make impact over the world with very firm determinism and
vision with no boundaries. He survived through deep mud and was exposed to high pressure, and
yet all the roads he went led him into his own creation, the Apple Computers.

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Bill Coleman, Software Developer
Votes by Phil Darnowsky, Arun PC, Said zcan, Subhrajyoti Ghatak, and 13 more.
Jobs screwed everyone he ever worked with
Jobs screwed everyone that ever worked for him (except maybe Ives)
Jobs screwed every supplier upstream
Jobs screwed every purchaser downstream

He was a $$$ man with pretty much no conscience... it's how he lived his business life - with all
the loyalty of a feral tom-cat. But he had a few other things going for him too:

Charisma - so much that it manifested in the form of his "reality distortion field", which he used
to get people to agree to stupid stuff, hide his dirty deeds, sell lemons and hype up good products
to the point of worship

Vision / Innovation - he could see beyond spec sheets to what large demographics of end users
really wanted. In fact, in the last couple of years you can see that now that everyone has caught
up with his mobile platform ideas, they have all fallen back into competing by featuring features
rather than innovating.

Right place/right time - anyone looking to break into the tech sector now is walled off by patents,
supply costs and other strategically erected barriers to entry for small scale operations and noobs.

SO, If you really want to be like Jobs here is some advice:
1. Forget tech - find a new emerging industry, or create one
2. Take acting/drama lessons (from a variety of people/angles) and make a serious study of
charisma as a learn-able skill (which it is)
3. Have the empathy regions of your brain surgically removed so you can be a proper psychopath
4. Prepare to be lonely (and sick, cause homeopathic medicine doesn't deliver its promised
results - as discovered by Steve himself!)

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Amit Kumar Singh, A peaceful warrior!
Vote by Mairaj Pirzada.
Look if anyone on this planet has known the answer of this question, we would have seen
another Steve Jobs up til now and why do you want to become Steve Jobs, I mean why don't you
be just yourself. The purpose of each one of us life is to what we really want to do, Steve
wanted to innovate and he followed that call. Each one of us that call and the goal is not to look
at other's goal and achievements but to focus on our own journey because it's better to be
Original then to be Someone's duplicate.


1

Jan Viloria, Creative Strategist
Create something and market it to be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Don't bother being the worker behind the product--- find people who can make it happen for you.

You need to be charismatic enough to get these people to rally behind you.

Other than that, the world is your oyster. Make things happen by having a goal and never
procrastinating.


3

Manav Dhiman, Quored
Votes by Jon Tan and Aditya Jaju.

Source: Google Science Fair

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2

Glenn Lankin, Dad, Husband, Interested in everything, INFJ
Vote by Taylor Sarrafian.
There wont be another Steve Jobs. Don't forget that he was of that time and place.

Strive to be you. Unlock your talents and then unleash them.

Maybe know yourself more and then maybe you will happier than Steve was.


2

Alex Jouravlev, abstraction consultant
Vote by Alisher Tashpulatov.
1. Start by being born to or been adopted by very supportive parents. Confidence with
which Jobs was promoting his first venture came from the support and respect he was
getting while growing up.
2. Make sure you befriend one in a Century engineer, and make sure that engineer is a nice
yet immature type in need of such friend. Steve Wazniak wasn't just a talent - very
talented engineers were gasping for air looking at his Apple II design, it would be
another couple of years before someone else could invent affordable Personal Computer.
And that someone else would not be interested in employing Jobs.
3. Do not compromise. Don't agree on a "good job" - it's dent in the universe or nothing.
4. Be right most of the time.

Overall, for an entrepreneur to aspire to be another Jobs is like for a writer to aspire to be another
Dostoevsky, for an artist - another Van Gogh, for a Mathematician - another Galois, for Musician
- another Mozart. Certain acts just cannot be learned.

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Sonal Sharma, Aspiring daydreamer...
Vote by Rahma Sofien.
First make up your definition of success, write it down for remembering better and then work
on refining it until you get exactly what you want. Maybe you will discover that success is
nothing but a state of mind. Half of the people who are considered successful do not know what
do they want exactly. So, does that make them successful, I doubt so. Was Columbus a success
or a failure? He set out to find India and ended up on North American continent. There has been
no bigger failure than him.


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