World Changer: Five Lessons from Steve Jobs

By Nicholas Kenny

In the whole of the tech industry no one has revolutionized various industries like the electrifying late Steve Jobs, he revolutionized the personal computer industry, mobile phone, music and animation industry. Steve Jobs was a man who in his time, made a great impact in the world that today we live to enjoy. Such a person is worth emulating and learning from, that’s why in this book we tend to focus more on five important lessons that if we infuse in our lives can make great impact for us.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Feb 7, 2019

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INTRODUCTION

In the whole of the tech industry no one has revolutionized various industries like the electrifying late Steve Jobs, he revolutionized the personal computer industry, mobile phone, music and animation industry. Steve Jobs was a man who in his time, made a great impact in the world that today we live to enjoy. Such a person is worth emulating and learning from, that’s why in this book we tend to focus more on five important lessons that if we infuse in our lives can make great impact for us. It was not always a smooth sail for Steve Jobs, they were both good and bad days but at the end he scaled through all because he loved what he was doing. Loving what he was doing gave him the extra push to be tasty for excellent products. So as you read this book I wish at the end you try to reciprocate what you have learnt in your day to day living.

CHAPTER ONE

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Early Life

Steven Paul Jobs was born on the 24th of February, 1955 in San Francisco to Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble. Schieble’s father was not in support of the relationship so when Schieble became pregnant and later gave birth she had to put the child up for adoption to avoid issues with her father.

Jobs was to be adopted by a lawyer and his wife because his mum really wanted him to go to college. She wanted educated persons to adopt her son, but at the last minute the couple decided they needed a girl. So his mum got to find another couple willing to adopt her child, when Schieble, jobs mum found out Paul Reinhold jobs and Clara jobs were not college graduates she refused to sign the adoption papers. She only signed it after the couple assured her the child would go to college. Later when Jobs was asked about his adoptive parents he replied "Paul and Clara were my parents 1000%. He had a sister named Mona Simpson of whom he never knew until his adult life. She was from his biological parents Jandali and Schieble who later got married after the death of Schieble’s father.

Paul and Clara decided to adopt another child, named Patty. They later decided to leave San Francisco to Mountain View California. At an early age Jobs was fascinated by electronics and at age ten made friends with many of the engineers who lived around his neighborhood. He found it so difficult making friends with kids of his age group.

Educational Background

Jobs mum Clara taught him to read as a child while his dad on the other had taught him the basics of electronics. Steve jobs was not a fan of school right from the beginning, it was no wonder at Monta Loma Elementary school in mountain View California he was used to causing trouble and playing pranks on others. Jobs clearly