Life is brief, and then you die, you know?
By the end of this summer vacation, everyone sighs with helplessness.
Another summer, another semester.
Will you, however, seize the summer before winter comes? Have no idea?
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Has it ever come to your mind that who helped change the way we live, communicate when you are ordering your lunch or booking your air tickets on your smart phone?
No doubts. His “Stay hungry, stay foolish” has echoed years even after his death and I believe it will echo down the centuries as his other words as well.
I can still remember the line he used to lure John Sculley into becoming Apple’s CEO “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” Nobody would let the chance slip away after hearing this.
Today I’d like to share this great book, written by Walter Isaacson, which has taught me indispensable lessons when I face inevitable choices in the real world. I hope it can help enlighten you in this summer vacation and also the rest of your life.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson set down the riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Isaacson’s portrait touched hundreds of thousands of readers.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, see more on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537
Above is part of the introduction of this book from Amazon. Even after a late release that year, the book became Amazon’s #1 seller for 2011. About the author Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and TIME, I have to say, he plays a significant role in the book’s success. Like the review says it’s the phenomenal bestseller from the author of the acclaimed biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. Last year Isaacson had written another biography Leonardo Da Vinci, with beautiful illustrations and wonderful stories in it. Highly recommend!
I believe you’ll be amazed by knowing the fact that the book was written at the request of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson refused at first. Who’s arrogant enough to give a request like this? Only when Isaacson knew that Jobs was dying, he accepted it.
Many people are using iphone now, but seldom knows how the company started, got the first bucket of gold, thrived under the pressure of giants like HP and Microsoft. I believe after you reading it, you’ll like your iphone more and not only like it because of the great functions but the history of the great company and its co-founder.
I also didn’t know that Jobs was a jerk who denied to accept his own blood Lisa. He refused to accept that she was his daughter, however, named Apple’s computer Lisa after her.
They say he changed the world. I don’t doubt it. By reading his stores, you’ll be changed.
Do you want to live a mundane summer vacation by following the same old routine as last year or do you want a chance to change your life like we do in AReadingProject?
Quote from Jobs
Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
死亡很可能是唯一的、最好的生命创造。它是生命的促变者。它送走老一代，给新一代开出道路。
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
你不能只问顾客要什么，然后想法子给他们做什么。等你做出来，他们已经另有新欢了。
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
领袖和跟风者的区别就在于创新。
If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
你如果出色地完成了某件事，那你应该再做一些其他的精彩事儿。不要在前一件事上徘徊太久，想想接下来该做什么。
We're here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?
活着就是为了改变世界，难道还有其他原因吗？
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
要有勇气追随心声，听从直觉，它们在某种程度知道你想成为的样子。其他事情都是其次的。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.…Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
你的时间有限，不要浪费于重复别人的生活。不要让别人的观点淹没了你内心的声音。
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
谨记自己总会死去，是让自己避免陷入“人生有所失”思考的最佳方法。
There's a phrase in Buddhism, 'Beginner's mind.' It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind.
佛教中有一句话：初学者的心态；拥有初学者的心态是件了不起的事情。
Life is brief, and then you die, you know?
人生短暂，过着过着你就没了，明白么？
