To start off, he dropped out of college. Im modern society this seems like a premature death. Criticism from others is inevitable and Emerson describes this as “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure” (Emerson). Dropouts are often labeled as people writing themselves off early. Without an education, finding a job and becoming successful is seemingly out of reach. For Jobs, this break out of societies expectations allowed him to focus on what he wanted to study. Allowed him to take classes on what interested him instead of classes the school forced him to take. In Jobs words “The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn 't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting” (Jobs). He dropped societies chains and figured out what he wanted to do. Doing this allowed him to find his passion—and work from there. Mac and Windows computers would not have been the same if Jobs didn’t go against the flow. Steve Jobs may not have had as much success if he had done what others told and expected him to
To start off, he dropped out of college. Im modern society this seems like a premature death. Criticism from others is inevitable and Emerson describes this as “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure” (Emerson). Dropouts are often labeled as people writing themselves off early. Without an education, finding a job and becoming successful is seemingly out of reach. For Jobs, this break out of societies expectations allowed him to focus on what he wanted to study. Allowed him to take classes on what interested him instead of classes the school forced him to take. In Jobs words “The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn 't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting” (Jobs). He dropped societies chains and figured out what he wanted to do. Doing this allowed him to find his passion—and work from there. Mac and Windows computers would not have been the same if Jobs didn’t go against the flow. Steve Jobs may not have had as much success if he had done what others told and expected him to