Why Steve Jobs was one in millions?

Yesterday, when I woke up, I heard the bad news that Jobs had died. As the day passed, the eulogies, tributes begun to appear for this great man who change the world. I had never seen such a grief in an online world as yesterday, whether it is Facebook or Twitter. He was ahead of his time.

From my childhood, I was always interested in the conflict between Jobs and Bill gates and watched dozens of documentaries on the subject and that is how I begun to appreciate the Steve jobs. 

He never completed the college nor went into the B-school yet possessed the leadership qualities that very few on this earth possessed. He always believed in himself and was never been a part of flow. He changed the way we works. He is the other name of the innovation. Once when asked in the press conference that, how does it feel to you that Gates is a richest man by selling your ideas (not this directly), he replied, “The goal is not to be the richest person.”He was one of the most motivated person and even when we sometime feel low, we switch to the speech delivered by him at Stanford University where he said, “Don’t be a student who came here to study, Be a person who came here to deliver the speech.” That speech was one of the most fantabulous and motivated speech that I heard in my life. In that speech he shared few stories of his life. He told them the secret of his success: ”Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by the dogma-which is living with the result of other people’s thinking.”

From his numerous stories that were made available by his colleagues, it was apparent he was a man of details and was even concerned about the details of colors, fonts, packaging material and many other things of the products. He is was always the one who creates the benchmark and then the other companies struggled to keep them in the market. His products are one of his kind. We indeed have lot to learn from this personality. Some have compared him with the Edison and the other great inventors. Yesterday, I also saw the tweets like,” the heaven is blessed now”, “he is not dead”, “he will live in our heart”, “he is god” and so on.  Here is my Homage to Jobs- I am proud to be born in your era. Though you have died but you will always be alive in our heart.

Nothing Extraordinary...No need to read

Doing nothing important and in fact bored, It was my birthday last night so I just went ruminating the old days and recall my some of the last birthdays. 

2011- I went to marine Drive with my friends Keerti and Shubham in Mumbai.

2010-Last year, I was at NITIE on this day and went to Maharaja in evening to celebrate.

2009- I was with my Brother and Bhabhi and went to Dragon restaurant in Dwarka, Delhi.

2008- I was at my relative’s home in Ghaziabad (one of the rarest day when day went without consuming alcohol on birthday)

2007- I was in final year and the treat was sponsored by Prateek Jain , first time encounter to Vat 69 and 100 pipers.

2006- I was in 3^rd year. I didn’t able to recall.

2005- I was in 2^nd year. Went to SR bar in evening and FKD on 4^th .

2004- 1^st year in engineering college. I went to Moti Mahal with my friends in Lucknow. (Didn’t start drinking by that time)

2003- Not able to recall except the fact that I was in school.

Life goes on. Time passes so quickly. In just a flash of second, my whole life is in front of my eyes. We have too little time to waste and hate people. Life is short enjoy it to the fullest. Always live in present.

I am so happy today and at the same time nostalgic. We drink like anything, did the most unusual stuff, live like anything. Perhaps this is life. We discuss a lot about marriage and other useful stuff. Really love the today evening and Kareena and Karina

Discussion that does make any sense

We were having the discussion in the balcony of our room over a glass of alcohol on the occasion of completion of our exams. We love to have senseless discussions that perhaps matter to none but to us. One such discussion i would like to share with you people as well as i also wanted to remember it.  Discussion was about girls, girlfriends and all such stuff.

X: If you think closely, most of the people who went for higher studies after their engineering from our college are committed.
Y: What does that mean? Is commitment ensures good career? Y felt out of depth
X: Not exactly. But think of some names.
Y: Let us classify the people we know in our college into 2 categories, those who take admission for the sake of admission or without the availability of any other option and another one is those who cracked the exam with flying colors and went into the Best B-schools.
X: Now, consider the 2nd category. SA,Raja, SP,SS, AS,me,C M, PG,  all are in good colleges.
Y: Its great. What an analysis? But tell me one thing what about me? I am single.
He was amazed. He tried to recall some more names and they are all committed
X: But what about then when you are preparing?
Y: I was always single.

We discussed more and more and finally, i was flabbergasted by his analysis. Rest of the discussion is not suitable to write her as it can hurts the sentiments of many or fall outside the levels of decency, i have maintained for my blog.

Let me jump directly to the conclusion of our discussion.

Girlfriends bring some intrinsic motivation. More serious are the levels of relationship, earlier they began to think about their future.

The call of the wild by Jack London

It was one of the different and interesting read. It was a story about the Dog called Buck.

The motivation to read this novel comes when I was watching the movie “Into the wild”, there was a scene when the Hero was reading this novel. I paused the movie to find out the name of the novel. When I went to crossword, it was in the child section. I didn’t purchase it. I thought of ordering it from the Flipkart to earn discount but it skipped out of my mind.  Recently, I found the audio book of this novel. It was terrific. 

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 It was the story of the metamorphosis of the dog amidst the wild dogs in most dangerous of the nature conditions. He was living the very comfortable life in estate when one day he was sold. He was not used to the life of the outer world. He lost his weight, his health when put in the business of sled where he was required to move the sled. As he was not used to such difficult life, he became very depressed. But gradually, he realized, he learned. He once again comeback . He fought with full strength to regain his supremacy over other dogs. One of the line taken directly from novel was , "He was in full flower at the high tide of his life overspilling with vigil and virility."

The transition was amazingly mesmerizing. During his first night in the forest, he didn’t able to sleep due to cold, then he learned from the other dogs, his peers how to sleep in the snow laden grounds. One can also compare it to our lives. The transition and cultural shocks in human lives are no different. When we leave our home for the first time, we feel depressed, we are haunted by the external environment but gradually, with time, we learn from the outer world and peers the art of survival. 

At one of point of time, I was so engrossed that I forgot that the buck is a dog as the author beautifully brings all the positive and negative emotions like envy, passion, greed, anger in dogs and show that they are not much different  than humans. We are ready to trade them but the dog always shows the faithfulness towards his new master who are emotionally intelligent. 

I like the way author narrated the story and present all the intricacies of the Dog and master relationship.  There are some very beautiful lines like how the buck loves to watch his master, his every move. At last, he was became habitual of living in forest. His experienced and exposure under different masters taught him , eat or be eaten, kill or be killed. He was also very friendly and was accepted by the wolves towards the end of the novel when he became free from any master.This was again a cultural shock to him and he longed very desperately for his last master. But he learned that the life goes on.

If you like to read about nature and jungles, then you will definitely going to love this book.

Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanks to Divenita for giving me this wonderful book and to Blogger for giving me the good friends.

Although it is a thin book having just 70 pages, believe me it is not an easy read. I really struggle with the heavy vocabulary and style and it sometimes happened with me that I have read 2,3 pages without comprehending it but patience is the key. There are 2 essays in novel: Self reliance and prudence. 

Self reliance is about the importance of individual and completely different from Ayn Rand philosophy(which stresses equally on rationalism). It says we should always follow and trust our inner instincts. What so ever is achieved in this world by the people like Newton and many others is just the result of their self belief. The reason we are skeptical about instincts is that others have no other data to compute our orbits than our past data and we hate to disappoint them. What if you contradicts yourself? What if you are misunderstood? Why you care so much about society? Newton, Socrates, Phythagoras etc. all are misunderstood. One of the quotation from the novel is “To be great is to be misunderstood.”There is no point in saying what you don’t believe just because you think what other people will say if I contradict. 

After all, “your life is for yourself and not for the spectacle,” another quotation which I like very much. Another thing he stresses on one can’t be happy if he is not living in the present. Also, Peace is something internal and nothing can bring you peace but yourself. 

Prudence is another essay. He says he love the man who does not have perception. He brings the qualities of nature which we fail to acknowledge. It contains some very powerful quotations and you love to read them again and again. Let me share some which I really understood.

• Every man is actually weak and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak: to others, formidable. 

• Time is always bringing the occasions that discloses their value. 

• They measure each other esteem by what each has rather by what each is. 

•  Society never advances. It recedes as fast as on one side as it gains on the other.  

• You will always find the others who think they know your duty better than you know it. 

 Finally, i 'd  say one should miss this book. One other post Book GiveAway is dedicated to her.