Tell about Steve Jobs and his story of success ?

It would stimulate him to continue pursuing his extreme diets including purges, fasts, or eating one or two fruits for weeks.

Jobs later recalls this book as being the reason he gave up meat for good.

One day Steve Jobs needed to raise some cash, so he decided to sell his typewriter to a student at Reed College.

He entered a student’s room and found him having sex with his girlfriend.

When Jobs turned to leave, the student told him to stay and invited him to take a seat until they finished.

Thus started the friendship of Steve Jobs and Robert Martin Friedland.

Kottke described that their relationship had a lasting impact on Jobs, as he was mesmerized by Friedland’s mercurial, dictatorial, yet incredibly charismatic personality.

By Kottke’s account, it was Friedland who helped Jobs ‘come out of his shell.’ He was the type of character that one instantly notices when he walks into the room, and a real salesperson.

The more he and Friedland hung out, the more these characteristics started to rub off on him.

Friedland also became interested in Eastern spirituality, and together with Kottke and Jobs, they set up a commune called the All One Farm, a meeting place for the like-minded.

Soon it turned to sort of an “organic cider business.” Robert Friedland would have people organize feasts, chop and sell firewood, make cider and engage in commercial endeavors which went directly against the idea of a commune.

It was supposed to be a refuge from materialism, yet Friedland turned it into a business without anyone getting paid.

Eventually, Jobs left the farm, but he would still keep in touch with Friedland over the years.

Jobs was disappointed as he always treated Friedland like a spiritual guru, but for Steve, he ended up just being a gold miner both symbolically and in reality.

The traits that Jobs picked up from Friedland would help pace out his future as an entrepreneur.

Wozniak came to visit Jobs at Reed College to find that Jobs was very unpleased with the college.

He was angry at the fact that for its entire hippie aura, Reed still had strict course requirements.

While feeling deep regret for his parents spending their entire life savings on an education that he did not deem worthwhile, Jobs made the decision to drop out.

As soon as he dropped out of the required classes, he started looking into the ones he wanted to take.

Among them was a calligraphy class that fascinated Jobs. It appealed to his personality, as he considered it a combination of technology and subtle art.

A crucial thing that he did at Apple has he pushed the idea of a friendly graphical user interface.

The calligraphy class became iconic in that sense. He said famously in a commencement speech at Stanford: “If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces of proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them.”

His time as a dropout was not all romantic. He did not have a dorm room, so he ended up sleeping on the floor in his friends’ rooms.

He returned coke bottles for 5 cent deposits so he could buy some food, and walked 7 miles across town every Sunday to get a free meal at the Hare Krishna temple.

In mid-1972, Steve Jobs moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area where he rented his apartment. By this point, his relationship with his girlfriend Brennan had become complicated because neither of them could commit.