"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple thing... " - Steve Jobs
"Life can be much broader once you discover one simple thing: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use." - Steve Jobs
However, intelligence doesnt control performance by itself. Effort and personality traits like persistence are far more effective in obtaining success at pretty much anything.
That said, I think I could do pretty much anything, but a lot of things would take me a LONG time to master, and some things I could do very quickly and effortlessly. Growing up is finding out what your particular x-men powers are and using them.
Kind of what one would do if you get into a dead end street. Go back and see if you can make a different previous turn that gets you where you want to go without getting stuck on the dead end street.
If somebody else could do it, there's no reason you cannot do it, and do it better.
Even Stalin was a proponent of that- once he saw us make an atomic bomb, he knew it was possible and he then tried it with obvious success.
stress-relief tapes, fun tapes. . cottage industry, and
hundreds of tapes left the cottage, to go coast-to-
coast. . made lots of people happy. -- j
p.s. just recently, I got a Roland machine which
lets me put them on CD. . now, we're cookin'!
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Any bells ringing?
Thanks
I think the thing that Jobs did very well was to see how to apply an invention in a novel way. That in and of itself is a special kind of genius. Gates [evil] genius was in recognizing and pioneering software licensing - a novel practice when ownership was the norm.