關於愛，我是個小學生。

My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found out what I love to do early in life. Wozniak and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard. In 10 years, Apple arose from two of us in the garage into a 2-billion-dollar company with 4ooo employees. We just released the finest creation, the McIntosh, a year earlier, and I just turned 30. And then, I got fired. How can you get fired from the company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me. And for the first years or so, thing’s run well. But then our visions to the future began diverged and eventually we had falling-out. When we did, our board of directors decided to be with him. So at 30, I was out, and very publicly out. If I’ve been focused on the entire adult life that has gone, it was devastating. I really didn’t know what do to for a few months. I felt that I left my previous generation of entrepreneurs down, and I dropped the betongue that was passed to me. I met with David Packer and Bob Moyes and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. It was very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me --- I still loved what I did. The tune of Apple did not change one bit. I’ve been rejected, but I was still in love. So I decided to start over. I didn’t see at then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple has been the best thing that could ever happen to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. I’m sure about it every day. It freed me to end one of my most creative period in my life. During the next 5 years, I started a company named Next and another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman that lately becomes my wife. Pixar went on the world’s first computer-animated feature film --- Toy Story, and now it’s the most successful animated film studio in the world. In our remarkable turn of advance, Apple bought Next and I returned to Apple. With technology we developed Next into the heart of Apple’s core renaissance. And Irene and I had a wonderful family again. I’m pretty sure none of this would’ve happened if I had not been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life would hit you in the head with bricks. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced the only thing that kept me going was I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love and that is true for work as it is true for lovers. 

The only way to great work is to do what you love. If you’ve not found yet, keep looking; don’t settle!
Keep looking, and don’t settle!