The above tribute to Steve Jobs was designed by 19 year old Jonathan Mak Long, who says, “It’s just this quiet realization that Apple is now missing a piece.”
Well, we’re all missing a piece with Steve Jobs no longer here. I often have talked about one of the main motivations for true innovators and visionaries not being money, but rather to leave a thumbprint on the world. Jobs did more than that, he created the instruction manual many of us now are living by. Few people will be born in the coming decades who won’t be influenced by something he saw first, designed to perfection, and brought forth with marketing genius.
I think a lot of people are missing the point when they say he died too young. In his 56 years, he left many thumbprints on the world, and lived perhaps five lifetimes worth of adventures and realized dreams few of us can even imagine.
I believe Steve Jobs lived a very long and full life, it just happened to be mega-compressed. At his famous commencement address at Stanford in 2005, he directly addressed the subject of death:
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
As a MacBook Pro user, I am filled with gratitude to Steve Jobs, but as someone who tries to look at success and prosperity in new ways I can share with others, I am even more grateful for the legacy of wisdom he has left us with. For quite some time, I have collected his quotes. For the next edition of my Moneylove Club audio, I am going to take some of my favorite ones and elaborate on them, allow them to stimulate my own creativity. His view of the world was like that, it gave people an inspiring vision which they could then build on from their own perspective. In several places since his passing this week, I have seen a comment that evidently was quite popular and often quoted around Apple headquarters:
Steve Jobs is surrounded by a reality distortion field; get too close and you might believe what he is saying
The truth is no one can be said to be gone when tens of millions of people all over the world can still hold a piece of him in their hand.
Jerry
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