1.) You read about the entrepreneur:
- What surprised me the most about Steve Jobs was that I was not aware that he did not make the majority of his fortune (and eventually a becoming a billionaire) from Apple but instead, made his money from Pixar. After purchasing Pixar, he transformed it from what the company currently was, which surprisingly I learned that Pixar was not always a movies and entertainment industry.
- What I admired most about Steve Jobs is how he was able to become not only a successful entrepreneur but a successful businessman without obtaining a college level of education (unless you want to count the two years of college Jobs attended at Reed College.) This really stuck out to me because in this day and age there is a lot of emphasis and pressure put upon young adults that they will not be able to be successful and have a career if they do not attend college, Steve Jobs is a perfect example of being able to make something for yourself when college does not seem like the path you are wanting to take.
- What I least admired about Steve Jobs was when the book talked about how he had gotten his former high-school girlfriend pregnant and then was not present in his daughter or girlfriends life after the pregnancy and his daughters life. In addition to this, he also was not present in Lisa, his daughters life for many years. This to me came off as irresponsible and turned me off from Steve Jobs and his work.
- Steve Jobs most definitely encountered adversity and failure in his life through numerous ways. In his early life he faced adversity from being put up for adoption and having to become adjusted to a new family. All the way to facing difficult with the Apple I and his other early prototypes that were failures.
2.) What competencies did you notice that the entrepreneur exhibited:
- Steve Jobs exhibited perseverance. No matter what problems he faced throughout his life such as the examples that I mentioned in the earlier question, he never gave up. When the Apple I or other such items failed or had setbacks he did not call it quits or give up, he just took his mistakes and he learned from them. This can also be displayed through the troubles that he went through with his daughter, as he tried to establish a relationship with her and paid back child support dues, he was consistent with every trial and tribulation throughout his life.
3.) Identify at least one part of the reading that was confusing to you:
- I feel that this book could have gone into more detail about the people that really impacted Steve Jobs' life and his successes. Walter Isaacson does a good job about describing and mentioning all of the faults and arguments that he had with people as he was older but he does not ever go into a great detail about who really pushed him and kept him motivated.
4.) If you were able to ask two questions to the entrepreneur, what would you ask? why:
- If I could ask Jobs' two questions my first one would be "If you could see your Apple company now, would you be proud of what it has become?" This would be to see how he feels that the people who run his company now if they are following any orders he left for the company and other information along those lines. The second question that I would ask Steve Jobs' is "What your biggest regret in your personal life?" I would ask this question so that I could dig a little deeper into his more intimate life and learn more about the relationships that he had throughout his life because the book did not reveal a lot about his personal side.
5.) For fun: What do you think the entrepreneur's opinion was of hard work? Do you share that opinion?
- I personally think that Steve Jobs' opinion of hard work was never giving up when he felt like he had failed, he was a very determined and self motivated worker and I feel that this is what helped him to achieve all of the technological advances that he made in his lifetime. I feel that I share that same opinion to a certain extent because I do not give up after I fail something or when something gets tough.
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