Steve Jobs - A visionary and creative genius

Even though I'm not a fan of Steve jobs and Apple products, Apple's financial details generated interest in me to read Steve jobs biography written by Walter Isaacson. Today Apple is the biggest company by market capitalization.

I know how people are crazy for iProducts. Somehow, I feel apple products are for girls and the cost is little high for ordinary people. Still Apple products Stand out by their design and freshness.

For all the guys who don't know much about Apple, here are some interesting facts.

1. First commercially successful personal computer to feature mouse and GUI is created by Apple.
2. More than 3 million iPods sold and this is the highest in this kind of products.
3. iPad is the first successful tablet and all other companies following it now.
4. iPhone is the first popular smart phone with touch screen.

  For all that success Apple achieved, Steve Jobs is the guy behind it. He always wanted to create something new & unique but simple.  When I wanted to have successful and unique life, I thought i can learn something from this guy.

Some lessons I learnt from his life are:

1. To become a successful CEO of a IT related company, you don't need to be a good engineer. But you need to have a clear vision and you should hire someone who can do the better job for you.
2. For Steve jobs, any thing less than PERFECT will look like a SHIT. That's why all the Apple products got such a craze in public.
3. He believes a employee should love what they are doing, then only they can produce best results. It should not be like working for salary, appraisals etc. This is the reason every product released by Apple will be marketed with the tag  "The most AMAZING product yet"
4. We should not keep so many things at a time in our mind. Complete concentration on one item will produce best results. (Steve jobs once gave this suggestion to Google founder Larry page also)
   

I feel he will inspire me a lot in future to attain my goals and stand out different from ordinary people who leads boring life (My definition of boring life: secure job › marriage › own house › Car › Children education › Children marriage :p).

Understanding the progress

We often hear and we actually feel that "Our generation is making good progress in Education, Health & Living".

But we have to re think: Are we really making progress?

When we talk about progress in Health, we take criteria as,

1. Hospitals are improved
2. We got latest equipment
3. Medicines available everywhere 

But the real criteria for good progress should be

1. Patients count should be reduced

We are improved in count of  Doctors, Equipment & Medicines. Proportionally Patients count also improved (Sometimes you won't find beds, ICU rooms in the hospitals in Bangalore). The real progress in HEALTH is when we see more people HEALTHY not when there are more PATIENTS in the hospitals.

When a patient goes to hospital, doctors making them to come back again and again for years. A hospital should not be ranked GOOD by the equipment & doctors. Doctors should make the patient healthy in such a way that they should not suffer with the same disease again in their life. That's the real PROGRESS we need to achieve.

In case of LIVING, people think we are living luxurious life with computers,mobile phones, live TV etc. But there is a famous quotation which says it all
       " Life was much easier when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits"

And the same applies for education also. Education is teaching physics,computers and management etc. But it is not teaching common sense. People doesn't know what is good and bad. Still educated people are

1. Involving in corruption, 
2. Fighting for caste, religions & reservations
3. Allowing bad politicians to rule us
4. Committing suicides to escape from the pressure given by life

When people cannot live happy life then what progress we made?

Life is boring when you don't have a problem

On the first thought you may think Title is TYPO. Its not. Yes I need some problems in my life which will make my life challenging and interesting. If I have everything with me, I will enjoy them within 1 year and that's all. After that I don't know what to do with rest of my life.

The winning satisfaction will be enjoyed only when u struggle more. Sometimes you may enjoy what ever comes for free but that wont be interesting all the time.

You wont like to eat from your father's money all the time. Some day you will like to earn by yourself and that will give you more satisfaction than the previous one.

Imagine the life where you don't have a fight or argument with spouse, friends or parents. Every happy couple, every happy family will have small n sweet issues. That will make their life interesting

I will be getting salary every month. But some times my account balance become zero and I will be waiting for next month salary. Because of the WAIT, next salary will give me more happiness. These small n sweet problems are always good to have.

Its better to have some problems than a boring life