What I learned from reading I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words by George Beahm.
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you're doing, and it's totally true.
And the reason is because this is so hard that if you don't, any rational person would give up.
It is really hard, and you have to do it over a sustained period of time.
So if you don't love it, if you're not having fun doing it and you don't really love it, you're going to give up.
And that's what happens to most people.
If you really look at the ones that ended up being successful in the eyes of society and the ones that didn't.
Oftentimes, it's the ones who were successful loved what they did so they could persevere when it got really tough.
And the ones that didn't love it quit because they're sane.
Who would want to put up with this stuff?
If you don't love it, it's a lot of hard work, and it's a lot of worrying constantly.
And if you don't love it, you're gonna fail.
That was Steve Jobs talking about the importance of passion.
And it's an excerpt from the book that I'm gonna talk to you about today, which is I, Steve.
Steve Jobs, in his own words.
So I counted the other day, and I think I've done 13 different podcasts on Steve Jobs.
I will link them all with episode numbers in the show notes.
Most of those, he's the main character.
Like, there are biographies or books exclusively dedicated to him.
In a few, it's about like, his partners, like Jony Ive or like Ed Catmull at Pixar.
But even after reading all these books on Steve Jobs, I didn't know the book that I'm holding my hand even existed.