The Legacy of Steve Jobs

by CTT on May 15, 2012

“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 of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

This quote by Steve Jobs tells us what it was like for him to be fired from the company he co-founded and how he felt during this period of time in his life.

Steve Jobs has been referred to as a person who is legendary, futuristic and visionary.

Jobs have also been described as the Father of the Digital Revolution, Master of innovation and Design Perfectionist.

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California.

Steve was put up for adoption while still young and was later adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.

Many years later, he met Stephen Wozniak who would later become one of the Co-founder of Apple alongside Steve Jobs.

When he got to the right age for college, Jobs enrolled in Reed College but decided to drop out after only one semester.

After a while, Steve took interest and understood Wozniak’s brilliant invention could be sold to software hobbyist, this was basically for those who wanted to write software without having to assemble a computer kit.

For this reason, Jobs had convinced his long time friend Stephen Wozniak to start a company thus being the birth of Apple on the 1st of April in 1976 spending the next few months assembling boards for “Apple I” in Steve Jobs parents’ garage.

Jobs had many up and down during his time at Apple; nothing was harder then when he was pressured into leaving the company that he co-founded.

He went onto found NeXT to compete with Apple only wanting the best software and hardware for his computers.

Jobs later became a Co-founder of Pixar in 1986 and made 5 times more than Apple then what he had in the 1980s after the successful release of Toy Story.

In 1996, Steve Jobs coincidently returned to the company he Co-founded when Apple decided to buy the company NeXT from Steve Jobs.

Pixar and Disney later join forces and Steve Jobs became a board of director at Disney owning 7% of the company’s total stock.

Apple now has become one of the richest and most well known company because of their popularity which is leading the way of Digital Technology with their iPhone, iPod, iTouch and iMac etc.

Unfortunately in 2003, he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, that could be removed by surgery but he refused to until he finally decided to have his surgery in 2004.

For the next 5 years he looked healthy while doing public talks and promoting his products but later due to the resurgence of his cancer, this made him decide to put his affair into order, as of August 24 2011, he officially resigned as CEO of Apple.

Steve Jobs unfortunately died in the following few months on the October 5 2011 at home surrounded by his loved ones.

Although Steve Jobs still had many ideas and innovations, he was taken from us too soon but his legacy will live on through Apple and the products he created and revolutionised.

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Time Management & Schedules

by CTT on April 5, 2012

“Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late”. This quote by William Shakespeare demonstrates that it is better to arrive a lot earlier than to be even a single minute late.

Everyone understands the concept of time and how valuable and important it is but a lot of us take time as something for granted. People forget that time is precious.

People often become restricted and confused when they start planning out their daily life.

Time management is just simply the process of planning out and exercising control of your daily schedule by having a set amount of time for certain activities and sticking to it, this is so you can increase your effectiveness, efficiency and productivity.

Time management helps us accomplish many things by allocating time to them, like projects, goals or school tasks.

A schedule is a plan or timetable that you have set for yourself to carry out your daily tasks.

If you were to explain a schedule, it would operate in a similar way to a map. This is because it provides you with information about where you need to go and the way to get there.

So, if you didn’t have a schedule you may take a wrong turn! This means you might not reach your destination. When you get lost, it may take quite some time before you will be able to find your way again, this usually makes a person arrive late to their intended destination.

By having a schedule, you can look see what you need to do each day. You’ll know what you are suppose to be doing during certain time, but if you aren’t, then you would know exactly what to in order to get back on track.

How to Make Schedule:

The first thing you should do when making a schedule is to first write down all the things you have to do on a piece of paper for a certain day, week or monthly basis.

Once that is done, sort all the work you have to do for the course and allocate it into a certain time and estimate how long you think it would take to complete the tasks.

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