Love & Life Lessons from Steve Jobs

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photoshopupdates is offline photoshopupdates Post #1  October 27,2011, 9:24am
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Life is too short and too precious to waste time being unhappy, resentful or dissatisfied.
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savman is offline savman Post #2  October 27,2011, 10:11am
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We should all learn about love and life from a man who had to have a biography written with the expressed purpose of doing it so his kids could know him. Or rather, so his kids could know what he had been doing, instead of getting to know them.
 
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Agree with Savman...I give kudos to his technical achievements only. There are a lot of things the way he treated his employees, child, and ways he lived his life that are not something to be celebrated or modeled...

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lindseyk is offline lindseyk Post #4  October 27,2011, 10:48am

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I think the passing of Steve Jobs, of whom I knew nothing until the media recently started inundating the world with news of his illness, is a tragic loss for his family. The loss of a loved one is terribly painful. However, I must admit I'm a bit fuzzy on why I would need to take love and life lessons from this person.
 
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Someone I do admire and look up to for inspiration on living well is Randy Pausch, whose The Last Lecture has become quite famous. The lecture was for his children, who he knew he would not live to see grow up to adulthood, but it has now inspired millions. I read somewhere that before he died six million people had accessed his lecture in one way or another, be it in book form, abridged online versions, etc. I'm sure there have been many more since and for good reason.

My mom and I watched a documentary about him that was made before he died of pancreatic cancer and it was incredibly inspiring. He knew he didn't have long to live, but his positive spirit and commitment to his wife and children was a joy to see. In the documentary, he allowed them to use portions of video recordings he made for his children to view when he was gone and it was impossible not to cry while watching them. He took the opportunity to record for the future all of the things he wanted them to know as they grew up. To me, he was someone from whom one could really learn about life and what matters.
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I think the passing of Steve Jobs, of whom I knew nothing until the media recently started inundating the world with news of his illness, is a tragic loss for his family. The loss of a loved one is terribly painful. However, I must admit I'm a bit fuzzy on why I would need to take love and life lessons from this person.
i think- correct me if i am wrong, anyone- but the lesson from steve jobs is do not neglect your family. from what i've read recently (and that is really all i know since i was not following him before hand), he was fairly detached from family while he continually chased the next thing in high tech.

i think the best thing to learn from Mr. Jobs is that he was a poor roll model for the rest of us.
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Someone I do admire and look up to for inspiration on living well is Randy Pausch, whose The Last Lecture has become quite famous. The lecture was for his children, who he knew he would not live to see grow up to adulthood, but it has now inspired millions. I read somewhere that before he died six million people had accessed his lecture in one way or another, be it in book form, abridged online versions, etc. I'm sure there have been many more since and for good reason.

My mom and I watched a documentary about him that was made before he died of pancreatic cancer and it was incredibly inspiring. He knew he didn't have long to live, but his positive spirit and commitment to his wife and children was a joy to see. In the documentary, he allowed them to use portions of video recordings he made for his children to view when he was gone and it was impossible not to cry while watching them. He took the opportunity to record for the future all of the things he wanted them to know as they grew up. To me, he was someone from whom one could really learn about life and what matters.
Agree....very inspirational!
 
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 I would like to say that this is THE most useless post I have ever seen. get over your self you apple fanboy.  he's dead and the world is a better place.
 
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I'm a Windows fan, because of the openness of the platform, but that does not negate the amazing contribution of Jobs to the world we now live in.

When you change the world, strangers will care what you think about everything too. Why not work on that?
 
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From what I've read about him, he sounds like a jerk. He must have been quite the ladies man.
 
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