Tell about Steve Jobs and his story of success ?

He spent most of the summer with Brennan in the cabin, writing poetry and playing guitar. Brennan spent her time painting.

In the mid-summer season, Jobs and his high school friend Tim Brown were driving on Skyline Boulevard in the Santa Cruz Mountains when his red Fiat caught on fire.

Tim Brown noticed flames coming out of the engine and casually told Jobs to pull over as the car was on fire

Despite their arguments, Jobs’s father drove out to tow the Fiat home.

To make money for a new car, Jobs asked Wozniak to drive him to De Anza College where they found a job on the help-wanted bulletin board.

For $3 an hour, Jobs, Wozniak, and Brennan dressed up in full-body costumes depicting characters from Alice in Wonderland to entertain children.

Steve quickly realized it was a lousy job, and his impatient personality did not go well with the kids.

Back when Paul and Clara adopted Steve, they made a promise that he would go to college.

They saved for a college some funds and could get him into an excellent school, but Jobs made everything harder.

Steve Jobs initially refused to go to college until his parents pushed him to apply.

He then declined to consider schools like Stanford and Berkeley, which were more affordable and more likely to give a scholarship.

Instead, he insisted on going to Reed College in Portland. Reed is a liberal arts college, one of the most expensive in the country, which had a ‘hippie aura’ going on.

Jobs felt like it was the right place to develop his artistic side, dismissing Berkeley and Stanford.

While visiting Wozniak at Berkeley, his parents received an acceptance letter from Reed College. Paul and Clara Jobs actively discouraged it, as it was far more than they could afford.

They eventually bent to his will, and Steve enrolled at Reed College in 1972.

Later the same year, the counterculture movement and political activism were winding down.

America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was coming to an end, and the youth was growing increasingly less radical and anti-establishment, with their focus and interest now being pathways to personal fulfillment.

Jobs began exploring literature on spirituality and enlightenment such as Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass. He speaks of how the book ‘transformed’ him and many of his friends.

It was at Reed College where Jobs became friends with his roommate Daniel Kottke, who shared similar interests in music, literature, and psychedelics.

Together they would journey to the East Coast On The Road style, talk about the meaning of life, attend love festivals at the nearby Hare Krishna temple, and frequent the Zen center for free vegetarian food.

Steve Jobs engaged in Eastern spirituality and Zen Buddhism quite intensely while studying at Reed College.

Kottke described Steve as “very much Zen. It was a profound influence.

You see it in his whole approach with stark, minimalist aesthetics, intense focus.” It was not just a passing trend for him.

Later Steve Jobs recalled how the Buddhist emphasis on intuition greatly influenced him: “I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual, logical analysis.” The one thing he struggled with is his intensity which prevented him from fully achieving inner peace.

Another inspiration during his freshman year at Reed College was the book Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé.