Hewlett gave Jobs the parts and a summer job. When Jobs was twelve years old he called up HP co-founder Bill Hewlett and asked for spare parts. If he wanted something, he would ask, even at a young age. Steve Jobs didn't hesitate to take risks. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too. The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. This is one of the most powerful success principles we can learn from Steve Jobs: a broad set of life experiences is essential for creativity to flourish.Ģ. He believed in taking life experiences and using it as a subtext for something else you're doing, like helping to form the product you’re creating,” said Stern.

“Absorbing culture, art, and history were extremely important to Jobs.

Stern included pivotal scenes in the movie showing a young Steve Jobs taking a college calligraphy course and visiting India with his friend, Daniel Kottke.

I’m not dismissing the value of higher education I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.Īccording to Jobs film director Joshua Michael Stern, Steve Jobs felt that life experiences were critical to being creative.

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