Wow, I never thought about this before. I couldn't figure out why I keep learning more and more, but accomplish less and less. I thought it was lack of focus, but it's actually lack of ability to say 'no'. I want to apply all my knowledge to everything, and end up getting lost in the process.
The same problem I have had... I was learning in an indirecte way I was learning to prepare myself to do something perfect without defining what that something was. The driving cause of this was fear and doubt.
Focus is about saying no. But saying no is about the hardest thing there is. Saying no and being wrong (a missed opportunity) is often more painful/catastrophic than saying yes and being wrong (a mistake). I see this often in my career as a project manager in technology where waste just builds up over time because it’s a yes yes yes culture. Unproductive initiatives stretch on and on and we just hire more people to support the lack of focus rather than putting a bullet in the head of some of this crap and saying and take the risk of missing an opportunity.
Happens in every industry in the world lol A fat cat says hey guys this is the direction we are going, Everyone knows from day 1 it’s a failure yet we all carry on…on and on knowing it was never going to work. We get told to be positive, chin up, never give up encourage others, you can’t succeed without trying 😂😂 Everyone trucks on and nothing ever succeeds
Saying “no” invests more of yourself into the present moment/goal/project/focus. The present moment matters most, even if that thing you said no to proved to be a good opportunity eventually. Life is all about risk, we all know it but often can forget it. Always remember that in the present moment, in a juncture of decision(s), and stay true to your deepest gut. Be vigilant. Be humble. Press on… Work hardest at the thing you HAVE to do for yourself the absolute most - the thing you won’t regret trying so hard at. Life is shorter than short. Keep writing your life story in how you want it to be.
@@TomokoMurakami He's not a native English speaker. It's a Chinese proverb, and the more accurate translation would be "He who chases two rabbits catches neither."
Imagine the guts that Steve have had in that time. Everybody must have thought that he was crazy. It shows me the power of his vision for the future, and his charisma to mobilize people towards that future.
Just not enough to acknowledge his children. He was a piece of *$@#. We were better off without all this "revolutionary" garbage. All he did was expedite humanity's demise. Thanks Steve. Deny your daughter and force her onto welfare? Wow, I am waiting for the idiot to reply that he did that for her own good. He knows what's that like right? Didn't his parents pay for his education? Anybody who had the misfortune of claiming benefits knows that there is nothing good about being on welfare. You can use the experience for you benefit, you could also do the same thing with a lengthy prison sentence.
Apple was on the verge of going out of business before they brought Steve back. I was a software engineer in Silicon Valley at that time, living in Saratoga (right next to Cupertino where Apple is), and Steve had to revive the business. OpenDoc was a hot item briefly but he made the right call to save the company. The Apple Newton was a huge fiasco in the 1990s and Steve did an astonishing job, bringing that company back to life. They were so low, they had to take money from Bill Gates to save the business. That was after losing a huge lawsuit to Microsoft. Steve 'ate crow' to get that business healthy again.
people do listen when you are honest. well most people dont listen to stuff which is important because they make it sound like it is not worthy of attention. in short they have no substance. gotta be something philosophical at the end to make sense.
To be fair that is pretty much all he had to show at this point, Apple was in a desperate position when he returned during this time period. Like less than 60 days from insolvency
My entire childhood, I believed this guy was the genius I must look up to in life. I studied my socks off to become him. I’m 22 now and will graduate from med school next year. I realise now that he was a leader who could inspire people to create his vision, which is a rarity.
Steve Jobs nailed this also. Read a interview with Steven King. When he was writing earlier he got many new ideas about stories he could write "write me, write me". King said he ignored them all off them even if the seemed better then the idea he was writing this feelt often hard to do. But as Steve Jobs said so perfectely "focus is to say no!". No to your own new ideas and no to anything that shift you focus from the goal.
+Jan Ove ddd Thank you dude. "Focus is to say no! No to your own new ideas and no to anything that shift you focus from the goal. We get so many new ideas about stories we could write "write me, write me" that you get anxious and end up not doing anything. The secret is to ignore them all off them even if an idea seemed better then the idea we were writing, it is often hard to do, but at least it makes you actually finish something and learn from the failure or winnings. Then you compare it to your other ideas and make the finished idea even better next time, so some untouched ideas get actually used. Everything has an order or you will get lost in your own world and produce nothing." I'm gonna memorize this.
Reading this comment just as I'm pondering prioritizing a new idea over the one I've been working on for months (for the first time in my life I'm dedicated to developing just one idea and it's delightful. And difficult.)
This is apart of overall fundamental law called the Backwards Law/Law of Reversed Effort There's a few good videos on it It changed my understanding completely from the bottom up in my life and in both what and how I decide to do things.
Even more relevant today with the amount of options, choices and distractions. Apply what he says to your life. Say no. Focus and do a few things really well.
He really makes so much sense here. I just started my own small business and this is a discussion my wife and I had, and have had several times: you have to learn to say no (turn people away). I can’t fix everything people bring to me, and I should not try. If I get Maier down in something that is not going to be economically feasible(i.e. profitable) then I really should not except working on it. This is where good assessment skills coming to play and why I decided to start my business based on my medical experience.
@@ADUSN If it is reality like you know,then why contend Wozniak for Steve They on two different ballgames get incredibly important but you still heat up the conversation
Jony Ive gave a corollary to this (Jobs often asked him how many things he said no to today, he said this, that, 100 things, but these are things he doeesn't want to do in the first place): it's not saying no to things that you don't really like and have no intention to do in any case (you might be pushed by others to do and decided to say no to feel good about yourself: hey, I'm focused and I sad no), it's about saying no to something you absolutely love and would work 100 hours a week to get it: you say no to this thing because you're already working on another thing you love, as painful as it might be and as much as you feel you can do good with both, so you can do great with one thing.
Never realized that focusing was saying no, I always visualize in my mind a tunnel of perception contracting to a smaller area, but never realized that what this actually was is saying no, to others and internal processes outside the intended area! Makes me want to go into a “no” philosophy rabbit hole n really get things figured out so I can accomplish something.
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Honestly, I’ve run businesses my entire adult life. If people study Steve’s approach to business, macro to micro, they’ll find 80% of EVERYTHING they need to know to succeed and 100% of bulletproof guiding philosophy. It’s all there. Forget the personal stuff, people get lost in that.
His archive of WWDC’s should be analyzed in every business class.I wonder how much Apple stock was the day he gave this speech. This man thrived in chaos. He was the first minimalistic CEO. I still have my 80gig iPod I will never sell it. Its a reminder of what true product design is.
Steve Jobs was one of the best CEO’s in the world. Just like Hiroshi Yamauchi-san (former and late President of Nintendo Co. Ltd.) They where both visionaries whom looked far ahead in the tech industry. Yamauchi-san was also known as the Nostradamus of the video game industry. R.I.P. Mr. Jobs and Mr. Yamauchi-san. I still miss you 😢
And Im not. He was great CEO and inventor but terrible person. Also i worked under some people who followed his teachings and been inspired by his "strategies" ... Never again ... Offcourse there are many things about him (like this video) which are good and inspiring (in a good way). But overall i dont miss him.
Reminds me of Warren Buffett's advice. In essence: * Make a list of the top 25 things you want to accomplish in the near future. Goals to reach. Possessions to obtain. Relationships to develop. Places to visit or live. Whatever. Be totally honest; no one is going to see this list but you. Don't list things you think you "should" want or would be logical or responsible to want, and don't leave something off because someone would think it silly or irresponsible for you to be wanting it. * Next, go through your list of 25 things carefully again and pick your top 5 desires. Circle, check, or otherwise mark them in some way. * So, obviously, you now know what you're going to be focusing on. Those 5 things. But what about the other 20 things you really want? They are still very meaningful, strong desires and would be great to have. Do you pursue them in your spare time? * No. Those 20 things are what you must absolutely avoid at all costs.
After being in tech for a decade... Holy shit! That rings so true. The issue, if not always, but mostly about sh*tty management. Management that focuses too much on optics, and client that doesn't know what they want, and the management that's chasing after those distracting optics. Infuriating.
He mentioned how there was a lack of management and I feel like this applies to every job really. Like working at a hospital, crazy how so many people are just lacking the entire day. People want “great service” but when they are the ones giving the service they do a half ass shitty job. I do cleaning at hospital and there’s a lot of lazy people that don’t want to clean 🧼 the way is supposed to be. But they hate when themselves or a family member is in a hospital room and it’s not sanitize properly, I sometimes look at this people and want to tell them straight 🆙 it’s not just engineers or high end jobs that this applies to. This applies to all jobs across the board. We need management that’s going to put their foot down on these lazy as staff and even the management themselves are just as crappy as the staff that gets hired. So sick of this BS! People are just disgusting all across the board for behaving like this! Stop lacking and do things properly!!
I think it all comes down to having empathy with the users of your service, and feeling a sense of responsibility towards what they expect from what they're paying for. However I think there's also the issue of "culture", which I guess can be influenced by management.
Ironically, as a language teacher, this is my message to my students. Learning a language is not shot intelligence, it’s about attention and focus and reps. I say ironically because it’s the Apple products that are creating the environment of severe distraction within the classroom.
Attention is a commodity. And people are giving it away, unknowingly, and suffer thereafter. We really really really need significant time off our screens.
Very interesting, some of my peers do tend to think that they should be saying saying yes to everything to not miss an opportunity, I tend to trust myself to recognise an opportunity when it comes along and inevitably waste a whole lot less time getting involved in obviously fruitless projects.
He touched on it so brilliantly. It is counterintuitive to say no to people, they even made a comedy with Jim Carrey called Yes Man that is worth a watch, but for the first time in my life after almost dying from covid I have had to tell a lot of people no and it has been the only way to save my sanity. It gets easier and easier. Always reserve energy for what is important.
What I find great about this, is how Steve starts on an abstract level, which explains the general approach. But then he qualifies it, too. So you know it’s not just talk.
I know project manager that was talking about fast track project in the start up fase. But as the project moved foreward they started focusing on finding shortcuts. The loost the Marco focus and starting to find quick fixes. The project failed miserably. The short cuts you will find after the project is over. When you evaluate what did we do wrong what could we do better next time.
One should never underestimate someone with Steve Jobs' track record in producing great products, however, given so many things that are messed up in our world today, I wonder if there are better ways to scale up innovation and production and perhaps ways to tackle a larger amount of our unsolved problems using our limited resources. From the bottom of my heart, RIP Steve Jobs. 💙❤️
This applies to my University management. They want to maximise profits while maintaining rankings and teaching excellence. As staff, we are overworked, overwhelmed. And we find it hard to argue with management when they say they want to strive towards excellence in all areas. But this is the crux of the matter. They lack focus. Management lacks focus, courage and vision to say no. They say yes to everything and in the process, destroy staff welfare for unattainable gains. The plan looks good on paper, but the practice kills.
That is not the "crux" of the matter at all. You watch a 3 minute video and think you're the man himself. Your university's leadership is making those choices because it benefits them personally. They know what they're doing. Running you all into the ground because they care soooo much about excellence??! Because they just want all of you to be your best selves but gosh darn we are spreading them a bit thin aren't we. All in the name of excellence.... This is incredibly naive. You are being taken for a fool, along with anyone else in your institution with similar thinking.
Yea, and that's because we have a hard time focusing on things that we need to be focused, and those are stuff we don't like, or we're not interested in (at the time). And focusing on things we're not interested in causes pain (the feel of pain), because it's hard. We have to concentrate and it doesn't give our brains chemicals of pleasure, that we would be receiving otherwise by doing stuff entertaining and that we like. 😊
GREAT VIDEO! His allusion to other companies being on bs while his suffered for a while then rose...is a GREAT LIFE LESSON. you cannot take on the suffering of others or feel for them, don't be sufferers be winners. Arrogance is the only thing they can say for embodying confidence over time.
Actually, Microsoft is moving over to Apple in a different way - by closing up platforms, by limiting functionality in an attempt to make things work better. Problem is, that has worked for Apple on the iPhone and the iPad, only because of the fact that they had a bigger market share in the first place, which was caused by the Apple fanboys. Microsoft has fans, but not the same kind of them that Apple has, which will stay faithful no matter what.
Took balls to engage that many engineers who were pelting him with pertinent industry questions. His responses indicated he knew very well the impact his decisions have made.
Here we are and Apple seems to have forgotten his point in this clip already. There’s elegance in simplicity. That elegance translates to intuitive user friendliness and devices that just work. Sometimes more is just more, not necessarily better.
Commenting so I get the TH-cam algorithm to show more vids like this
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Good idea
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I'm in
Wow, I never thought about this before. I couldn't figure out why I keep learning more and more, but accomplish less and less. I thought it was lack of focus, but it's actually lack of ability to say 'no'. I want to apply all my knowledge to everything, and end up getting lost in the process.
i totally understand. i feel like i want to learn everything i can but it can be messy when you dont know ehere or how to apply it
I have exactly that. Every day. And, since reading 7 habits of highly effective teens, I believe I am on the right track to focus more.
The same problem I have had... I was learning in an indirecte way I was learning to prepare myself to do something perfect without defining what that something was. The driving cause of this was fear and doubt.
Waji Deu that is me!! I'm gonna fix this now. It's not about learning everything, it's about learning what matters
Yup! Read essentialism!
Focus is about saying no. But saying no is about the hardest thing there is. Saying no and being wrong (a missed opportunity) is often more painful/catastrophic than saying yes and being wrong (a mistake). I see this often in my career as a project manager in technology where waste just builds up over time because it’s a yes yes yes culture. Unproductive initiatives stretch on and on and we just hire more people to support the lack of focus rather than putting a bullet in the head of some of this crap and saying and take the risk of missing an opportunity.
Why do I think you are my project manager😂
Happens in every industry in the world lol
A fat cat says hey guys this is the direction we are going, Everyone knows from day 1 it’s a failure yet we all carry on…on and on knowing it was never going to work. We get told to be positive, chin up, never give up encourage others, you can’t succeed without trying 😂😂 Everyone trucks on and nothing ever succeeds
You can go through but you'll not be unique.
Dayummmm. Love your comment
Saying “no” invests more of yourself into the present moment/goal/project/focus. The present moment matters most, even if that thing you said no to proved to be a good opportunity eventually.
Life is all about risk, we all know it but often can forget it. Always remember that in the present moment, in a juncture of decision(s), and stay true to your deepest gut. Be vigilant. Be humble. Press on…
Work hardest at the thing you HAVE to do for yourself the absolute most - the thing you won’t regret trying so hard at. Life is shorter than short. Keep writing your life story in how you want it to be.
This applies literally to every aspect of life, from relationships to self motivation
This is true.
"Focus is about saying no." So true.
“A man who searches two rabbits catches none”- executed at the highest level
@@TomokoMurakami He's not a native English speaker. It's a Chinese proverb, and the more accurate translation would be "He who chases two rabbits catches neither."
This was a guy who was suffering from overt games and his wife as well LIKLEY stolen ide
Hahah, my stepmom was searching for two rabbits of neighbors and caught them and took them away, far away
a man who CHASES . . .
great saying
Imagine the guts that Steve have had in that time. Everybody must have thought that he was crazy. It shows me the power of his vision for the future, and his charisma to mobilize people towards that future.
Just not enough to acknowledge his children. He was a piece of *$@#. We were better off without all this "revolutionary" garbage. All he did was expedite humanity's demise. Thanks Steve. Deny your daughter and force her onto welfare? Wow, I am waiting for the idiot to reply that he did that for her own good. He knows what's that like right? Didn't his parents pay for his education? Anybody who had the misfortune of claiming benefits knows that there is nothing good about being on welfare. You can use the experience for you benefit, you could also do the same thing with a lengthy prison sentence.
Apple was on the verge of going out of business before they brought Steve back. I was a software engineer in Silicon Valley at that time, living in Saratoga (right next to Cupertino where Apple is), and Steve had to revive the business. OpenDoc was a hot item briefly but he made the right call to save the company. The Apple Newton was a huge fiasco in the 1990s and Steve did an astonishing job, bringing that company back to life. They were so low, they had to take money from Bill Gates to save the business. That was after losing a huge lawsuit to Microsoft. Steve 'ate crow' to get that business healthy again.
I’m sure that, when you can get away with committing crimes against your own children, like Steve, you’d probably feel somewhat bold.
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Love how he gives them 100% honesty and gives them the mindset
And he also gave some the sack.
people do listen when you are honest. well most people dont listen to stuff which is important because they make it sound like it is not worthy of attention. in short they have no substance. gotta be something philosophical at the end to make sense.
Yes
To be fair that is pretty much all he had to show at this point, Apple was in a desperate position when he returned during this time period. Like less than 60 days from insolvency
Legendary interview. I keep coming back to this every few years and understand it better and better
My entire childhood, I believed this guy was the genius I must look up to in life. I studied my socks off to become him. I’m 22 now and will graduate from med school next year. I realise now that he was a leader who could inspire people to create his vision, which is a rarity.
22 in Med? Damn man props to you. 24 in a few weeks, and nothing but working jobs. You inspire me
@Joe Blow idk about him, you sure did.
@AtlanticLove a couple!! You have more points than my original comment. I’m in med school asshole.
@@tanicwhisper0647 26 here bro 2 kids no school and some dreams, we are all on our own journey, just keep pushin forward ☝️
Bro i am a 3 rd year med student too…sharing the exact same thoughts as you.
Steve Jobs nailed this also. Read a interview with Steven King. When he was writing earlier he got many new ideas about stories he could write "write me, write me". King said he ignored them all off them even if the seemed better then the idea he was writing this feelt often hard to do. But as Steve Jobs said so perfectely "focus is to say no!". No to your own new ideas and no to anything that shift you focus from the goal.
+Jan Ove ddd Thank you dude. "Focus is to say no! No to your own new ideas and no to anything that shift you focus from the goal. We get so many new ideas about stories we could write "write me, write me" that you get anxious and end up not doing anything. The secret is to ignore them all off them even if an idea seemed better then the idea we were writing, it is often hard to do, but at least it makes you actually finish something and learn from the failure or winnings. Then you compare it to your other ideas and make the finished idea even better next time, so some untouched ideas get actually used. Everything has an order or you will get lost in your own world and produce nothing." I'm gonna memorize this.
Jan Ove ddd that means that better ideas could be lost?! :o
What about when he was working on the tablet and that was his goal and then the possibility of the phone came up and he said yes to the new idea?
And then there's Hirohiko Araki putting every single freaking idea he ever had into a story. This is totally weird, should I take it out? NO.
Reading this comment just as I'm pondering prioritizing a new idea over the one I've been working on for months (for the first time in my life I'm dedicated to developing just one idea and it's delightful. And difficult.)
Less is MORE I finally understand now
No charger
This is apart of overall fundamental law called the Backwards Law/Law of Reversed Effort
There's a few good videos on it
It changed my understanding completely from the bottom up in my life and in both what and how I decide to do things.
@@rise_and_reborn4048 gl
More is More
That's a mystical way to put it. It's really just converting resources; less of one thing, more of another.
Even more relevant today with the amount of options, choices and distractions. Apply what he says to your life. Say no. Focus and do a few things really well.
Facts
"Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing." -Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
Completely true, bro.
He really makes so much sense here. I just started my own small business and this is a discussion my wife and I had, and have had several times: you have to learn to say no (turn people away).
I can’t fix everything people bring to me, and I should not try. If I get Maier down in something that is not going to be economically feasible(i.e. profitable) then I really should not except working on it. This is where good assessment skills coming to play and why I decided to start my business based on my medical experience.
"Ever tried, ever failed, thats alright. Try again, fail again, fail better"
One of the wisest men to have graced the world of business and technology.
@@ADUSN You are missing meaning of "one of the..."phrase ig
@@ADUSN Marketing is incredibly important. Perspective is reality.
@@ADUSN If it is reality like you know,then why contend Wozniak for Steve
They on two different ballgames get incredibly important but you still heat up the conversation
Jony Ive gave a corollary to this (Jobs often asked him how many things he said no to today, he said this, that, 100 things, but these are things he doeesn't want to do in the first place): it's not saying no to things that you don't really like and have no intention to do in any case (you might be pushed by others to do and decided to say no to feel good about yourself: hey, I'm focused and I sad no), it's about saying no to something you absolutely love and would work 100 hours a week to get it: you say no to this thing because you're already working on another thing you love, as painful as it might be and as much as you feel you can do good with both, so you can do great with one thing.
Not the nicest guy, but man did he get shit right.
I worked for Apple in the 80's and I'm compelled to say that is the most accurate, concise assessment I've seen.
if u think about the work he put in and what he built...hes like the godfather of modern society
Right about a lot, seriously wrong about a strategy to fight cancer
@@NotRogan
If you have a succesful strategy to fight cancer, please share. I'm serious by the way.
@@mkast2815 there’s no blanket solution but some simple advice would be: if you’re lucky to have a curable kind, don’t reject the medicine.
Never realized that focusing was saying no, I always visualize in my mind a tunnel of perception contracting to a smaller area, but never realized that what this actually was is saying no, to others and internal processes outside the intended area! Makes me want to go into a “no” philosophy rabbit hole n really get things figured out so I can accomplish something.
Nicely put ...
GOOD!!! "Say No a Thousand Times!!!" - Gratitude!!!
One of the best sayings by any CEO....Steve knew what his engineers were truely capable of doin'..
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Back when Apple felt like it was led by humans who would engage in actual open discourse with fans.
Underrated comment
Tim Cook destroyed the company
@@oddunb6190 Worse he killed SJ's vision.
They weren't fans in the audience , they were workers in the industry.
Beep bobeep beepity beep
Translation: I totally understand
This is one of the best videos I have watched by Steve Jobs
Honestly, I’ve run businesses my entire adult life. If people study Steve’s approach to business, macro to micro, they’ll find 80% of EVERYTHING they need to know to succeed and 100% of bulletproof guiding philosophy. It’s all there. Forget the personal stuff, people get lost in that.
Dr Buzz: Would love to learn more. Hope to have my own business one day.
That’s true!! Steve Jobs approach to business can teach us a lot.
What’s a good place to start in your opinion? Which book ?
“ Focus is about saying no “ ... That’s a golden nugget ⚜️
His archive of WWDC’s should be analyzed in every business class.I wonder how much Apple stock was the day he gave this speech. This man thrived in chaos. He was the first minimalistic CEO. I still have my 80gig iPod I will never sell it. Its a reminder of what true product design is.
Steve Jobs was one of the best CEO’s in the world. Just like Hiroshi Yamauchi-san (former and late President of Nintendo Co. Ltd.) They where both visionaries whom looked far ahead in the tech industry. Yamauchi-san was also known as the Nostradamus of the video game industry. R.I.P. Mr. Jobs and Mr. Yamauchi-san. I still miss you 😢
And Im not. He was great CEO and inventor but terrible person. Also i worked under some people who followed his teachings and been inspired by his "strategies" ... Never again ... Offcourse there are many things about him (like this video) which are good and inspiring (in a good way). But overall i dont miss him.
Yamauchi-sama!
@@UnShredded Thank you for your reply.
It's 2023 and I need to hear this
Dealing with this dilemma and got the clarity , thank u Steve!!
Brutally honest, and undeniably effective. What a great notion
honest? even while he denied paternity of his child and refused to support her.....even after paternity was proven. What a guy!
Reminds me of Warren Buffett's advice. In essence:
* Make a list of the top 25 things you want to accomplish in the near future. Goals to reach. Possessions to obtain. Relationships to develop. Places to visit or live. Whatever. Be totally honest; no one is going to see this list but you. Don't list things you think you "should" want or would be logical or responsible to want, and don't leave something off because someone would think it silly or irresponsible for you to be wanting it.
* Next, go through your list of 25 things carefully again and pick your top 5 desires. Circle, check, or otherwise mark them in some way.
* So, obviously, you now know what you're going to be focusing on. Those 5 things. But what about the other 20 things you really want? They are still very meaningful, strong desires and would be great to have. Do you pursue them in your spare time?
* No. Those 20 things are what you must absolutely avoid at all costs.
Well said in a time where focus is becoming increasingly sparse
May these words help me in my music career! Thanks Steve, better late than never.
Amazing... This is the content youtube should recommend me always.
After being in tech for a decade... Holy shit! That rings so true.
The issue, if not always, but mostly about sh*tty management.
Management that focuses too much on optics, and client that doesn't know what they want, and the management that's chasing after those distracting optics. Infuriating.
He mentioned how there was a lack of management and I feel like this applies to every job really. Like working at a hospital, crazy how so many people are just lacking the entire day. People want “great service” but when they are the ones giving the service they do a half ass shitty job. I do cleaning at hospital and there’s a lot of lazy people that don’t want to clean 🧼 the way is supposed to be. But they hate when themselves or a family member is in a hospital room and it’s not sanitize properly, I sometimes look at this people and want to tell them straight 🆙 it’s not just engineers or high end jobs that this applies to. This applies to all jobs across the board. We need management that’s going to put their foot down on these lazy as staff and even the management themselves are just as crappy as the staff that gets hired. So sick of this BS! People are just disgusting all across the board for behaving like this! Stop lacking and do things properly!!
the term's slacking btw
@@michaelanthony4750 We knew that.
I think it all comes down to having empathy with the users of your service, and feeling a sense of responsibility towards what they expect from what they're paying for.
However I think there's also the issue of "culture", which I guess can be influenced by management.
The words ' Focusing is saying no' have been leading my life forward!!!
I need more videos like this TH-cam
Steve Jobs wore the same outfit every single day for decades. This man clearly knew what truly matters in life. I'll take his advice without wavering.
nice one lmao
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it was deliberate, so he could keep 100% of his focus on the ball. At the highest level you don't have a second to waste.
clothing is just a basic survival thing if you are focused on other things that dont require you to mind what you wear while doing great stuff.
I don't think I have any words to describe how this man has impacted thousands of lives
1000's?
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Ironically, as a language teacher, this is my message to my students. Learning a language is not shot intelligence, it’s about attention and focus and reps. I say ironically because it’s the Apple products that are creating the environment of severe distraction within the classroom.
Attention is a commodity. And people are giving it away, unknowingly, and suffer thereafter. We really really really need significant time off our screens.
Love listening Steve Jobs talking, you always learn something
Steve jobs was one of the best speakers I have ever heard of ❤
Very interesting, some of my peers do tend to think that they should be saying saying yes to everything to not miss an opportunity, I tend to trust myself to recognise an opportunity when it comes along and inevitably waste a whole lot less time getting involved in obviously fruitless projects.
One of the things that i heard but stuck with me after years is that Not every “great” opportunity is great for you.
He touched on it so brilliantly. It is counterintuitive to say no to people, they even made a comedy with Jim Carrey called Yes Man that is worth a watch, but for the first time in my life after almost dying from covid I have had to tell a lot of people no and it has been the only way to save my sanity. It gets easier and easier. Always reserve energy for what is important.
Hate or LOve - Stevee made some sense out of what he talked and walked..
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What I find great about this, is how Steve starts on an abstract level, which explains the general approach. But then he qualifies it, too. So you know it’s not just talk.
I know project manager that was talking about fast track project in the start up fase. But as the project moved foreward they started focusing on finding shortcuts. The loost the Marco focus and starting to find quick fixes. The project failed miserably. The short cuts you will find after the project is over. When you evaluate what did we do wrong what could we do better next time.
Such a legend wish he was still here doing what he does best
The Rockstar Genius Inventor of the modern era!! You have left us Hungry and Foolish Steve :)
The period-specific picture quality and buffering put this video over the top. I feel like I'm back in college watching this.
Amazing clarity in thoughts, this guy is built different
One should never underestimate someone with Steve Jobs' track record in producing great products, however, given so many things that are messed up in our world today, I wonder if there are better ways to scale up innovation and production and perhaps ways to tackle a larger amount of our unsolved problems using our limited resources. From the bottom of my heart, RIP Steve Jobs. 💙❤️
We want to keep our options open but the chip has to land somewhere. I was really challenged by this message. Its so tough to let go and say no!
This applies to my University management. They want to maximise profits while maintaining rankings and teaching excellence. As staff, we are overworked, overwhelmed. And we find it hard to argue with management when they say they want to strive towards excellence in all areas.
But this is the crux of the matter. They lack focus. Management lacks focus, courage and vision to say no. They say yes to everything and in the process, destroy staff welfare for unattainable gains. The plan looks good on paper, but the practice kills.
That is not the "crux" of the matter at all. You watch a 3 minute video and think you're the man himself. Your university's leadership is making those choices because it benefits them personally. They know what they're doing. Running you all into the ground because they care soooo much about excellence??! Because they just want all of you to be your best selves but gosh darn we are spreading them a bit thin aren't we. All in the name of excellence.... This is incredibly naive. You are being taken for a fool, along with anyone else in your institution with similar thinking.
Inspirational gem and relevant to my work situation and my own personal goals too. great upload!
Thanks for sharing 😮
I think that focusing is hard because our brain associate focus with the feeling of fear.
Yea, and that's because we have a hard time focusing on things that we need to be focused, and those are stuff we don't like, or we're not interested in (at the time). And focusing on things we're not interested in causes pain (the feel of pain), because it's hard. We have to concentrate and it doesn't give our brains chemicals of pleasure, that we would be receiving otherwise by doing stuff entertaining and that we like. 😊
Fear causes impulsive focus. One can be focused and comfartble of a goal at the same time, sometimes even better focused.
its not fear, its the fear of missing out on what could be. Our imagination is infinite, but unfortunately, life is finite.
not so
literally !
Seeing this and knowing that this was 1997, then I immedietly search first iphone introduction that was 2007.
Man, for 10 years, he was aging so fast.
He diagnosed with cancer
That will happen to you when you refuse treatment for cancer
@@hfarthingt - Cancer happens when you refuse to have an easy life. And when you have a very easy one.
Steve jobs... what a legend
Whoa i just realized what makes me procrastinate all day is bcs tes yes culture, gonna apply this and i can got how optimistic and great person he is
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Steve Jobs on staying focused by saying NO. And NO means NO!
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I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs was a big fan of Peter F. Drucker.
Would you kindly tell me why? I would like to know why you think that :D.
cRoWn He wrote a popular book called Manage Oneself. In it is a big emphasis on prioritizing your ONE THING
“Purposeful abandonnement” - Peter F. Drucker is the shit!
He was a fan of zen minimalism not peter sticker. Read his biography
Steve Jobs is my inspiration!! ❤🎉
GREAT VIDEO!
His allusion to other companies being on bs while his suffered for a while then rose...is a GREAT LIFE LESSON.
you cannot take on the suffering of others or feel for them, don't be sufferers be winners.
Arrogance is the only thing they can say for embodying confidence over time.
->CD Projekt adding Keanu Reeves in the middle of developing the game Cyberpunk 2077, should've said no even if the idea was enticing.
You’re spiralling - focus
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Actually, Microsoft is moving over to Apple in a different way - by closing up platforms, by limiting functionality in an attempt to make things work better. Problem is, that has worked for Apple on the iPhone and the iPad, only because of the fact that they had a bigger market share in the first place, which was caused by the Apple fanboys. Microsoft has fans, but not the same kind of them that Apple has, which will stay faithful no matter what.
My word for the new year is FOCUS
My building my first software, this is a goldmine.
He is describing specialization, not concentration.
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No.
Love each word from that guy .. man i wish he could be back
This video contained a lot of inspiration from a great mind.
Lol rare vid
this is insane ill be like this guy once day, a true visionary
We took this guy for granted. Even though the smartphone kind of destroyed society, still a very innovative thinker Steve was
Inspirational gem of all time
Took balls to engage that many engineers who were pelting him with pertinent industry questions. His responses indicated he knew very well the impact his decisions have made.
Brilliant!
This is so true, I learnt this too late but better late then never
Thanks for sharing this very good piece of advice.
This is the advice we need!
I want this type of videos from TH-cam
It's great to hear from legends...
Steve Jobs was the Da Vinci of technology. A truly inspiring man
Here we are and Apple seems to have forgotten his point in this clip already. There’s elegance in simplicity. That elegance translates to intuitive user friendliness and devices that just work. Sometimes more is just more, not necessarily better.
Same love this hopefully TH-cam shows me more
Love this
This is so simple and amazing.
Within 5 years of this speech they were back on the right path. Focus!
Commented to get more recommendations..! No big deal just the algorithm...!
Its 7th march 2023 when i get this in my recommendation.
Very nice
I needed this.