7 Lessons From Random Steve Jobs Encounters


#4 Admit your mistakes

This lesson is drown from an instance when Jobs was about to return to Apple after a small hiatus since his getting fired from the company he founded.

Michel Smith, a person who was acquainted with Jobs wrote a mail to him for considering his return to Apple to help the struggling company. Smith said he implored Jobs "Please don't come back to Apple. You'll ruin it." Jobs wrote back, saying he wanted to save the company, and then made one request of Smith: "You may be right. But if I succeed, remember to look in the mirror and call yourself an idiot for me."

Smith wrote "Consider it done, Steve," and later accepted "I could not have been more mistaken."

#3 Be a gentleman

This one makes up for a spicy lesson.  Maryam Qudus was hired as an intern for Apple in 2010. On her first day of training, she was told that if she happens to run into Jobs in Caffe Mac’s , a staff restaurant, "not freak out and just leave him alone."

 When she got her food and headed toward the door, which was being held open by Steve Jobs."I tried holding on to the door to let him and the people behind me pass," Qudus wrote. "But he continued to hold on to the door and, like a kind gentleman, said, 'No, after you,' and then smiled at me. Best first day of work ever.”

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