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To use your line of reasoning, let's take another anomaly: Steve Jobs. The dude was adopted, was a community college dropout and did a ton of drugs. He woke u
by izendejas 16y ago
To use your line of reasoning, let's take another anomaly: Steve Jobs. The dude was adopted, was a community college dropout and did a ton of drugs. He woke up one day at 42 and found himself back at the CEO position of the company he co-founded and now he's considered by many the most successful CEO of our time. His company has a market cap of $300 billion+ and has created a whole lot of other intangibles by surrounding himself by other great people who love what they do.
Creativity and passion is not something you can teach your child--much less beat into them (this actually achieves the contrary). But yes, that doesn't mean some discipline and other blahs aren't important.
- gawker 16y agoHis management style isn't what something I would call liberal either. The success that he's achieved is based on control and demanding the best.
- jmtulloss 16y agoHe just "woke up one day"?
- fhe 16y agoFactual correction: Jobs went to Reed, hardly a community college.
- izendejas 16y agoThanks.
- zppx 16y agoNeXT and Pixar in the middle, hardly just waking up.
- izendejas 16y agoRead the literal sense of the phrase.
- neworbit 16y agoSteve Jobs is the Chinese mother in this story, not the child. He demands excellence from his team and is sometimes pretty over the top about the demand part of that phrase.