THE STEVE JOBS NOBODY KNEW BY JEFF GOODELL

      Apple computer inventor, Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. Together with Steve Wozniak, a brilliant computer engineer, they succeed to make the market grow drastically. My first thought of Jobs is he maybe a very discipline person who takes care all the things well organizes in his life. We never knew until Jeff Goodell gives an inside look of him. Well, he succeeds with his professional life, but he fail with his personal life. Being a person with a strong personality and ignoring the other employees, he seems to be abrasive. Jobs are really working hard to invent something that can change people’s life. John Perry Barlow, a digital pioneer, a friend of Jobs mentions ‘Steve created a lot of hardware, but over the years he also invented himself’. I think he means that Jobs character had change a lot. On the other side, it means that Jobs created his own new character to make sure that he can be a good quality inventor. 

 

By years, he keep getting a rewards form his achievement and keep inventing a new high technology item that can give ‘power’ to people but ignoring his own surrounding. He ignores his daughter and refuses to be responsible for his action. Then he is blaming other people so he can run from the responsibility. In other words, he doesn’t care about it at all. His attention is only focuses on what other kind of technology that can boost people’s imagination. He is a very detailed person and requires perfection in his works, he did a very good job in that. I can see from the article that Jobs think differently from everyone which he does not believe that the consumer was right. As expected from people who have a strong personality, he refuses to hear what others say. Sometimes, being harsh or strict is allowed, but we have to think about the situation and other people’s thought about something or about us. It can improve ourselves and help us to balance our personal and professional life.     

THE DEGREE OF HAPPINESS BY BETRAND RUSSELL

       I’m reviewing my comment on ‘The Degree of Happiness’ article by a famous philosopher, mathematician and Nobel laureate, Betrand Arthur William Russell or well known as Betrand Russell. Russell describes happiness by separating it into two which is open to human being and the other to those who can read and write. In my opinion, this passage means that the happiness is depends to one self. 

Human being has their own perception about happiness. Some of them think that, being an educated people is their happiness since education can change people’s life. Some of them think that by doing their favourite things brings happiness to them. Russell wrote a story about a man bursting happiness whose business was digging wells and hunting his mortal foe which is the rabbits that destroy his garden. Sometimes we can not understand what others think or the way they define happiness. The article stated about the way people’s think is different from each other depends on their lifestyle. It’s true that people always avoiding something different and bizarre to them, but if we put some effort to understand what they are trying to say, we might feels that they are from the same side. From my review, this article is trying to persuade us, to make us understand and respect each other point of view about happiness. To me, I would like to do something that I like because that is my happiness. People’s perception are different, don’t do something that will make you regret, just be yourself. So its easier to grab the happiness with you.   




            
       
          Quote:

'One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways'.Bertrand Russell - Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9

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