Steve Jobs: Most Influential Men In The 21st Century

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Steve Jobs has become one of the most successful and creative men in the 21st century. He has not only lead a company who has changed the face of cell phones forever, but will always be remembered as such an intelligent man. Steve was born on February of 1995, in San Francisco, California. His biological parents Joanne and John, both University of Wisconsin graduates, gave him up for adoption unnamed.
When he was an infant, Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs and given the iconic name Steve Jobs. As a boy he and his father always would love to work on electronics out of their garage, show at such a young age Steve’s love for technology and insisting his confidence. Even though Steve had been such an intelligent and innovative thinker, …show more content…

Wazniak would say the reason he and Jobs clicked so well was that, in that time no one really had an understanding on what the computer chip was or could do. After High School, Steve enrolled in College, but dropped out after only six months. In 1976, when Steve was only 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple in Jobs garage. In order to afford everything they needed to begin, Jobs had to sell his Volkswagen, while Wazniak sold his favorite scientific …show more content…

This is all about being able to recognize ones own and other peoples emotions. I think he showed this trait when not letting people know when he was first diagnosed with Cancer. Steve knew that if he was to share this news with the world not only would his emotions be thrown out of whack by all the follow up questions about him and everyone’s eyes taken off his work and put on him. He also feared that if people knew that they would begin to be afraid and take there money out of Apple stock and the company could plummet and harm his emotions even more. The other skill I referred to was in Goffman, this idea that we all wear many faces and life is a stage. Steve is the poster child for wearing different faces; He was a businessman and entrepreneur to the public and that is all he ever let them see, showing this when we constantly denied the rumors of a romantic relationship and a daughter. And after his death we learn of his other face he wore, a loving husband and father at home, trying so hard to keep those two worlds separate to again being aware of emotional

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