Video: Steve Jobs and the people around you

In my previous post, I shared Steve Jobs' advice on what is needed to stay at the top (if you missed it, you can read it here) from the TV documentary Steve Jobs: One Last Thing.  Today, I want to share the second most impactful moment I found in the film.  I believe I had heard this piece of advice before, but remembered it only vaguely.  Now that I’ve come across it again, it empowers me even further to continue to forge my way forward.  Here it goes:

“When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”

How often have we not thought that someone else is better than us?  Or may more important than us?  Maybe it is someone we have heard of that has had great success.  Maybe it is our boss, or our bosses’ boss.  Maybe it is a wealthier person.  Maybe it is a celebrity.  Yet, it is much more likely that the gap we see between them and us is a result of something different than just a greater level of competence.  Their success could be a result of hard work, discipline, risk-taking, even faith.  Things that ARE accessible to us as well, but which we do not explore because we immediately think someone is just “better” than us.  Often, we do not even seek to understand the person we admire…we just “imagine” that they must have access to things we do not have access to. 

Watch the video below and consider Steve Job’s advice.  The change you want in your life could be as accessible as a shift in perception.  

What are your thoughts? Do you think we let our own fears of others around us limit or intimidate us? I would love to hear from you, so please leave any comment or question below.  If you enjoyed this post, share it with your friends and family!

Lots of love,

Judith