Вообще крутизна подобных личностей не в том, что они раз смогли подняться на какую-то высоту, а в том, что они не опускали руки во время неудач и спусков и продолжали делать то, что любят, продолжали развивать ту сферу, которая им важна, продолжали создавать и придумывать.
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My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky, I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard, and in ten years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a two billion dollar company with over four thousand employees. We had just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I had just turned thirty.
And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started?
Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. And so at thirty I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.
But something slowly began to dawn on me, I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness to being successful was replaced by the lightness of being the beginner again less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years I started a company named Next, another company named Pixed and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.
Pixar went on to create the world's first computer animated feature film Toy Story and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.
In a remarkable turn of events Apple bought Next and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at Next is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple
It was awful tasting medicine but I guess the pacient needed it.
Sometimes life is gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love and that is the true for work as it is for your lovers.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work and the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart you'll know when you'll find it. And like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.