It is called the vicious cycle of abuse - why wouldn't Jobs be an example too. He definitely did not have a respectable biological father figure.
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Lisa Brennan-Jobs Shares Memories of Steve Jobs in New 'Small Fry' Memoir Excerpt
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It is called the vicious cycle of abuse - why wouldn't Jobs be an example too. He definitely did not have a respectable biological father figure.
The excerpt above is only one part of the whole story. It doesn't mention that Jobs reconciled with Lisa around when she was 9-years old, and it also doesn't mention the final conclusion of their relationship when he died. He made a real effort to right wrongs and turned things around.
From Wikipedia:
Years later, after Jobs left Apple, he acknowledged Lisa and attempted to reconcile with her. Chrisann Brennan wrote that "he apologized many times over for his behavior" to her and Lisa and "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry." After reconciling with her, nine-year-old Lisa wanted to change her last name and Jobs was happy and relieved to agree to it. Jobs legally altered her birth certificate, changing her name from Lisa Brennan to Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
According to Fortune magazine, in his will, Jobs left Lisa a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
According to Fortune magazine, in his will, Jobs left Lisa a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
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Children get influenced by their parents ideology along with the social circle their are involuntary introduced to. Those developing minds are sponges.
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Though the iMac would still be around. Jobs vision was to simplify and make computing personal, thus the iPad would be the mobile equivalent to what the iMac stood for. I have never seen Jobs more excited during a keynote other than the introduction of the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
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Don't be so small-minded, just go to a parallel universe and find out.
Can't be that hard
If you miss, there might quite many parallel universes out there.
Might be some fun, and probably a living Steve in a few of them.
Too bad though that none of his kids seems to be interested of running Apple one day.
Or have anyone heard that they have interest in it?
We can’t ask Jobs what he really thought or felt about his daughter. Seeing as he was usually self aware about personal questions being potential bombs I doubt he would give a truthful answer if he was alive today. Looking over most of his relationship with Lisa he only grudgingly acknowledged being the father and didn’t connect with her, really, until he got cancer.
As far as where Apple would be I think a lot of products would be gone because he wouldn’t see the point in propping up declining technology. Wozniak was the technical genius, Steve was a businessman. If he couldn’t see a way to sell more lap and desktop computers and it would need to be a lot more, I think they would be gone.
As far as where Apple would be I think a lot of products would be gone because he wouldn’t see the point in propping up declining technology. Wozniak was the technical genius, Steve was a businessman. If he couldn’t see a way to sell more lap and desktop computers and it would need to be a lot more, I think they would be gone.
I wonder what the real story was behind his motives. I have a theory based on some of his anger, interactions with the girlfriend expecting a child and denying the daughter afterwards.
For a man who appreciated simplicity and elegance in his products, he had a knack for introducing complexity and turmoil into his personal life! It’s hard to hear some of the things Lisa says.
I admire so much about Steve but, as a family man myself, I find it hard to overlook how he dealt with Lisa and Chrisann. If it was a pure numbers game then perhaps he has helped many more people through Apple products than he has hurt by being an imperfect parent but family life is rarely a numbers game...
What I really struggle with is why such an intelligent man as Steve Jobs didn’t try harder to reconcile his obvious mistakes as his own mortality gradually became evident. One of my own greatest fears is being snatched from life without the chance to say sorry/thanks/goodbye/I love you to those closest to me. If I was gravely I’ll over many months then I’d like to think I would have said my “one more thing” - before I departed.
I admire so much about Steve but, as a family man myself, I find it hard to overlook how he dealt with Lisa and Chrisann. If it was a pure numbers game then perhaps he has helped many more people through Apple products than he has hurt by being an imperfect parent but family life is rarely a numbers game...
What I really struggle with is why such an intelligent man as Steve Jobs didn’t try harder to reconcile his obvious mistakes as his own mortality gradually became evident. One of my own greatest fears is being snatched from life without the chance to say sorry/thanks/goodbye/I love you to those closest to me. If I was gravely I’ll over many months then I’d like to think I would have said my “one more thing” - before I departed.
Damn Steve was kind of a scum bag early on.
Not gonna lie, I never knew he denied being a dad to his flesh and blood.
Harsh.
Not gonna lie, I never knew he denied being a dad to his flesh and blood.
Harsh.
Based only on what I’ve read, Steve was without question an incredible visionary and businessman, but a good father, not the top of his priorities most of the time.
People are rarely even lucky enough to be particularly good at one thing, but it’s a shame if you can’t be a good dad to your kids, at the end of the day.
People are rarely even lucky enough to be particularly good at one thing, but it’s a shame if you can’t be a good dad to your kids, at the end of the day.
Jobs comes across as an ******. But in the end he admitted the Lisa was named after her. Maybe he didn’t want her to think she could get things for free like a Porsche, a life lesson. As harsh as he said it to her at the time. But deep down he must have adored her to name the Lisa after her..
To be honest,I couldn't' care less about how he treated his daughter or family or co-workers., it's all personal and i'm not that dumb and brain washed to except Disney style relationships,I all care about is that the man was a genius and he created many products that were unique and I love.
I don't care how he treated his daughter at all.
I don't care how he treated his daughter at all.
There is nothing ironic about that. Most (but not all) humans tend to repeat behavior patterns that they are exposed to. Which means that your environment will play a role in your character development. Here is another example: people with abusive behavior often times were victims of abuse themselves.
Wrong as it may be I suspect that a part of Steve always saw Lisa as a chain to Chrisann Brennan. For someone so insistent on control to have control taken away from him in this way must have been a big conflict for him. From the few things I've heard said by Lisa about Steve it seems like his Fatherly instinct generally won out on this but my take is that he carried that way of thinking for a long time.
Isn't Jobs a quintessential narcissist? Narcissists make great CEOs and leaders because they lack the empathic element that would make others more hesitant to make harsh decisions.
surprising nobody that despite everything steve jobs did he was was in fact, a horrible human being.
Of course it's true. Steve Jobs was a huge D, and egomaniacal narcissist and sociopath to boot. Yeah, he had a magnetic personality - just watch the 2005 commencement address he did at Stanford for an example of just how well spoken and charming he could be (it's available on youtube) - but he was still a huge D. And even at his very best his narcissism was still there - in that very same commencement speech he tells an anecdote about how his cancer doctor allegedly cried when he found out that The Great Steve Jobs was cured of his pancreatic cancer. That almost certainly never happened I'm wagering.
The tales of him blowing people off for little or no reason (giving rise to the probably urban legend of how he fired a guy in an elevator who didn't even work at Apple, and so on), his 'reality distortion field' where he would claim ideas of others that he had previously dismissed as stupid or bad as his own, or that time he cheated Steve Wozniak out of something like US$1650 (1970s dollars btw), or you know, the whole "you're holding it wrong" thing... There's so many examples of Jobs being an abusive D; him disowning his own daughter is just one in a long line. Why he's being held up as the 2nd coming by so many Apple fans is rather beyond me.
Yeah, he was influential and even inspirational at times, but he was also a huge D. And most likely the reason he's dead now is because he was a fool who believed in 'alternative medicine' despite having been a computer industry leader for decades.
Because I don't care about your armchair assessment of his personality? He made great computers. That's the only "product" of his character that I can analyze, and thusly, the only thing I care about. Not sure why this is "beyond you."
Steve: "You're not getting anything. You understand? Nothing. You're getting nothing."
Lisa: "I'm getting the rights to my life story, bitch."
Lisa: "I'm getting the rights to my life story, bitch."