Finally picked up the book, Jobs' biography, again for the first time since summer. Again, more fantastic quotes I can totally relate to.
"For all of his willfulness and insatiable desire to control things, jobs was indecisive and reticent when he felt unsure about something. He craved perfection, and he was not always good at figuring out how to settle for something less. He did not like to wrestle with complexity or make accommodations. This was true in products, design, and furnishings for the house. It was also true when it came to personal commitments. If he knew for sure a course of action was right, he was unstoppable. But if he had doubts, he sometimes withdrew, preferring not to think about things that did not perfectly suit him... Jobs would go silent and ignore situations that made him uncomfortable."
SO can relate.
"This attitude arose partly out of his tendency to see the world in binary terms. A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit."
The Restoration p. 315
Yup. Can relate to that, too. Black and white is most of my world. Learning to see the shades of grey (no, not talking about the book!) - the things that aren't right or wrong but just are.
"At times Jobs displayed a strange mixture of prickliness and neediness. He usually didn't care one iota what people thought of him; he could cut people off and never care to speak to them again. Yet sometimes he also felt a compulsion to explain himself."
The Restoration p. 316
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