Steve Jobs talks on tape about biological dad

Steve was full of contradictions, but so are we all. Yet I can't help wonder how he resolved these to himself:

1) he drove a car without plates so he wouldn't be noticed and followed, yet without a plate everyone knew who he was;

2) he didn't want to meet the biological father who abandoned him, yet he wanted the daughter he abandoned to become part of his family;

3) at the stanford address he urged students to follow their dreams and not the dogma of others, yet he lorded over Apple and expected everyone to follow his own dream;

How he resolved this cognitive dissonance, we may never know. I suspect that being told by all around you how wonderful you are may have clouded personal doubts. The book may reveal that "the emperor has no clothes", yet the real lesson is that Steve was indeed like the rest of us. Just crazy enough to follow his passions despite it's contradictions.

by Nyloc_Rek October 24, 2011