这篇讲述关于 Steve Jobs 的故事。说到他的“现实扭曲场”,笔者还是斗胆进行了论断,即这位企业家20岁找到自己所喜好的事业,并且工作足够长的时间以认知事实,我们经常说的 “实事求是”,所谓“实事求是”,就是不能以想象开展工作。除此之外, Jobs 也有足够的能力去选拔人才,例如,Ivy,iPod 设计者。
Here I want say something about this great entrepreneur, who had brought us brilliant product and concept of the world, a way of business and a way of changing world. Although, his approaches are quite controversial to a lot of others. You and I may not be the one who could be as distinguished as he, but we can grab some idea and good parts of what he come up with.
Talking about 'Reality Distortion Field', which we all know that he was relentless enough to push the things forward to conduct almost the best of one's life of their career path, as many people had said. As an Asian, I have, perhaps others also, thought about this 'field' -- what, could be distorted? Far from reality? Anything you or some one else could imagine?
The fundamental thing is sticking to reality , which means the key factor, like market demand or the core reason, should be the deep fact hidden beneath the fact instead of seeming deduction. It is more like a decision function constructed in successful people should be quite different from the ones in others mind.
Basic idea, please take these prudently.
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1983年的时候,Steve Jobs 在 Metropolitan Museum of Art 和 John Sculley 待了几天,Jobs 正在试图劝服 John 来管理 Apple。Jobs 施展了他极具魅力的说服艺术(seductive recruiting pitches),“你想要卖一辈子糖水,还是想改变世界” —— 这句话已然成为其最具盛名的句子。其他还有“Insanely great”、“think different”。当时 Jobs 还是 28 岁,已经改变了世界,之后还将继续改变世界。
他不喜欢做市场调研和聚焦小组,他总是追寻一种“勇敢”,特别是在设计上。当他在设计 iMac 的时候,将监视器和电脑连成了浑然一体。其实,很多消费者是接受不了这种设计的,至少刚开始的时候是这样。但是,Jobs 说“I know what I want and I know what they want”。
他是正确的。他总是有一种领导公众品味的能力,而非跟随。让人惊讶的是,他也总是离失败那么近(Perhaps equally astonishing is just how close he came to failing entirely.)。
Sculley,加入阳台演讲,加入苹果,与 Jobs 关系决裂(soured on Jobs),将 Jobs 赶出 Apple。当时的 CEO 还害怕 Jobs 会不会自杀!(这个桥段是不是很少听闻?)
这个时候 Jobs 尝试了各种不同的路径,例如,他当时定居到巴黎(expatriating to France),最终,他还是选择了他 21 岁所坚持的路径(tenacious and resillient)。随后他开启了两个新的公司, NeXT 和 Pixar,这两家公司耗去他 1亿美元的资金,他为此还出售了自己的 Apple 股票。
Apple for a $400 million windfall, then, in the most stunning reversal of all, returned to Apple after more than a decade-long exile 苹果自然地涨到 4 亿美元价值,史上最震惊的回归,即 10 多年的驱逐之后,乔布斯回到了苹果。 —— 因为句子写得不错,就直接翻译了。