We expect our heroes to be flawed. Heroes without Flaws would not be successful. Yet in the end its not the flaws we need to remember , but the achievements.

The book ends with this note , perfect way to describe a real hero or in this case Steve jobs who has never been really popular with his co-workers but there is something about him a never ending real energy booster behind him, which carries him to the extent.

About steve jobs i can write forever but as this post is about the book written by JS Young with William simon, the books starts of pretty well with the young steve jobs looking for opportunities, his alliance with Wozniak and his early romance life. I had seen movie Pirates of silicon valley . So i had pretty much idea about the Steve jobs early life.

But after that this book goes to the complete negative shade. Although every knows that Jobs had the unfortunate propensity to belittle other people or sometimes he was more vituperative than required. But the author took this aspect and continued the book till end.

The book introduces some new characters that came in steve's life and then same cliched that you have read in earlier chapter, that how steve had fights with that character and then how he came out of it.

Most of the times author goes on explaining the other secondary character more ,that it seems that its not the book about steve jobs, infact about some other random guy whom you are least interseted in.

And the most important point about this book is that the author has completely skipped the part of steve jobs and bill gates dispute. That might be because author wanted to stay away from the main controversies.

But on the positive note the story or the character of Steve jobs is what binds you to the book. Right from apple-I , apple-II to Mac and PIXAR and the iPod's, the way Jobs got success with his contagious zeal and confidence in himself is really human and just like a real hero.
The way he handled the slander and opprobium when he was out of the Apple and struggling to get success in his new ventures was inspirational.

He is not a perfect hero which we would like to imitate or idolise, but he is infact a iconoclast, who
proved that conventional ways are not the only way to success. To move in the direction where your heart want to, will also leads to the way of success.

So here is the steve jobs who always followed his heart, dumped people, most of the times grandiloquent, but ubiquitous in each and every product that ever came from his leadership, thats why all the products from Apple are state of art.

And he is not done yet. At the age of 50 or more, he is still young , with the same zeal that was behind Apple-I , he is carrying apple forward and the book (not written but understood )tells us that the best is still to come yet.

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