November 20, 2015, old blog post from the previous blog
Steve Jobs is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our generation. He is the one who initiated personal computer revolution. He did things that other considered impossible. He started Apple from his parents garage and with his intuition, vision and hard work made it the world’s most valuable company. Steve Jobs’s life was like a roller-coaster. He had a lot of ups and downs. Being adopted at birth, to discarding formal education, to be fired from his company shows how hard it was. Despite all these, he did what he wanted because he once dipped himself in the spiritual world. Let’s know why Steve Jobs chose spirituality when he was young.
Steve Jobs is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our generation. He is the one who initiated personal computer revolution. He did things that other considered impossible. He started Apple from his parents garage and with his intuition, vision and hard work made it the world’s most valuable company. Steve Jobs’s life was like a roller-coaster. He had a lot of ups and downs. Being adopted at birth, to discarding formal education, to be fired from his company shows how hard it was. Despite all these, he did what he wanted because he once dipped himself in the spiritual world. Let’s know why Steve Jobs chose spirituality when he was young.
The Truth of being Adopted
Steve Jobs knew from his early age that he was adopted. The fact that he was adopted was like a hole in his life, and he wanted to fill that up. Being adopted gave him a sense of rejection at birth, and it hurt him. He wanted to meet his biological parents, not because his he didn’t like his adopted ones, but it’s just because he wanted to know them to know more about himself and his characteristics. He had therapies on few occasions to get over such emotions but finally chose the path of spirituality to get over, and he did.Steve Jobs wanted to be Free
There was the beginning of counter-culture revolution when Steve was in his teens. He was very much influenced by its lifestyle. He always wanted to be like a free bird. He didn’t like telling much about his parents in his school days, letting people assume that he came from somewhere with no family and no background. In the quest to be more and more free, he finally had to dip himself to spirituality and its higher consciousness. Kobun Chino, the spiritual guru of Steve Jobs, says that Steve Jobs always insisted to be monk.
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He didn't fit in normal lifestyle
Steve in his late teen was known for his weird lifestyle habits. He always walked barefoot. He rarely took the shower and ate only fruits. He read a book that eating starchless food makes your soul pure by stop making harmful mucus in our body. Though it is a flawed theory but this had a tremendous impact on Steve Jobs’s diet. Steve always wanted to reach into the higher consciousness. All his weird habits were a quest to arrive at a stable state of human and finally he got by choosing spirituality and zen meditation.Steve wanted to achieve his best state
Since young Steve Jobs wanted to be one of the important person in the history who pushes the world forward, who changes it for better. He always wanted to achieve his full potential. He even travelled to India in search of enlightenment. Upon return from India, Steve found his spiritual guru and Started practising Zen. It is his guru who insisted Steve to continue business along with spirituality. Business with spiritual touch has helped Steve in making great products. Every Apple products are so fine and advanced and yet simple. We all know how beautiful apple products look, and it’s all because of the touch of spirituality in it.
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