Reading a biography for the first time should also be the person I am most interested in at present.

Jobs was abandoned by his parents when he was born. In fact, it is not accurate to say that his parents are two young people who just graduated from college and have children out of wedlock, and their religion is not accepted.

Even his biological mother once delayed signing the adoption contract, hoping to bring him back to raise him by herself.

His parents did not give him away at will, but strictly screened the adopters and asked them to go to college. This is their best plan when their children can't support themselves.

Later, for various reasons, his parents had to lower their demands and ask the adopter to promise to send him to college.

Jobs was lucky to meet his adoptive parents. Although he didn't go to college, they were determined to fulfill their promise at that time and send him to college.

I. Being abandoned and being chosen

When he first learned that he was adopted, Jobs Jr. was in great pain because he was abandoned, and his adoptive parents' behavior at this time was an example for them.

They solemnly said to Jobs, "No, you were chosen by us!" .

Being abandoned and being chosen, such contradictory feelings impacted Jobs and made him feel desperate and unique.

As Jobs grew up, as every child will experience, because of some events, he found that his father was no longer omnipotent as he thought.

After a carbon microphone incident, Jobs realized that he was actually smarter and more agile than his parents. And this kind of cleverness that is different from ordinary people is also accepted by adoptive parents. His parents are very kind, and they are willing to change their lives to adapt to this very smart and willful son.

Even when Jobs Jr. was called to be a parent because of various pranks at school, his father explained to the school with a calm but powerful attitude, hoping that the school would treat his children specially.

"Listen, it's not his fault," he said to the teacher.

"If you can't interest him, it's your fault."

"My father's father is an alcoholic and will slap him with a belt, but I haven't even slapped him." He added that Jobs' parents knew that the responsibility lay with the school, and the school didn't stimulate his interest in learning, but asked him to recite some useless things.

In most families in China, at this time, parents should not apologize to their teachers in various ways and then take their children home for a fat beating. Therefore, we in China will only raise good children, but not a paranoid and crazy genius like Jobs.

Throughout his schooling career, Jobs was both a genius and a wayward giant baby.

In the fourth grade of primary school, Jobs' IQ test was in the second grade of junior high school. Because junior high school was more challenging for him, he went to junior high school in cut class.

In junior high school, because he didn't like the atmosphere of the school (there were fights, school bullying and even criminal cases in the school), Jobs asked his parents to send him to another school, or he would drop out. His parents, who are not well-off, still investigate where the best school is, and then spend all their money to buy the best school district and let him go to the best high school.

In choosing a university, his adoptive parents scrimped and saved enough for his college tuition, but the wayward Jobs chose Reed College, the most beautiful and expensive private school, which was almost unbearable for his adoptive parents. Because of Jobs' willfulness, his parents finally compromised.

I think most of our parents can't let their children choose schools. Of course, this may not produce Jobs, but we still have a lot to learn about respecting children.

Second, great carpenters don't use rotten wood on the back of cabinets, even if no one will see it.

Jobs' adoptive father is a mechanical engineer, and he saved Jobs' college expenses by repairing machinery. He had a profound influence on Jobs.

When Jobs was a child, like every child, he thought that his parents could do anything, especially when his father took him to do machinery. For old Jobs, it is also very important to do the back of cabinets and fences well, although people can't see these places.

"He likes to pursue perfection, and even if others can't see it, he will care." This is Jobs' evaluation of his father and what Jobs learned from his father.

Later, while supervising the design of Apple II and Mac, Jobs asked engineers to rearrange the chip layout to make the circuit board look neat and beautiful. What he did especially puzzled the engineers of Mac machines. Jobs said, "Even in the case, I want it to be as beautiful as possible. Great carpenters don't use rotten wood on the back of cabinets, even if no one will see it. " He said that everyone is a real artist and should do so. After the circuit board was redesigned, he asked the engineer and other members of the Mac team to sign it, and then engraved the name inside the chassis. "Real artists will sign their works." He said.

Three. Business and technology

Jobs had a good friend, Wozniak. His obsession with electronic technology brought them together, and their completely different growth experiences and family education made them complement each other.

Jobs's father was a high school dropout. He learned how to make considerable profits by buying and selling parts while repairing cars. Wozniak's father, Francis Wozniak, is an outstanding graduate of the Engineering Department of California Institute of Technology and the quarterback of the school football team. He worships engineering very much and despises those who engage in business, marketing or sales. He later became a rocket expert at Lockheed, designing missile guidance systems.

"Engineering is the most important thing in the world, and it has brought society to a new height." Wozniak recalled what his father had taught him.

So they cooperated for the first time, a blue box with a free phone, Wozniak contributed his intelligence and provided solutions, while Jobs used his business mind to package products, and then used the negotiation skills he learned from his father to promote products.

This wonderful experience of the blue box sets a template for the upcoming cooperation between the two: Wozniak is an elegant genius, he created a cool invention and gave it to others, and he was very happy; Jobs will try to make this invention convenient and easy to use, and then package it and put it on the market, making a lot of money.

The template of their cooperation is also the brand of different family education. One focuses on technology, and the other turns into business opportunities. Parents' different behavior patterns and ways of thinking have an influence on children.

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