Kawasaki, Guy.

“The Stunning Response Steve Jobs Gave When a Former Apple Employee Told Him a

Product Was 'Crappy'.” CNBC, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2019, www.cnbc.com/2019/03/01/former-apple-

employee-guy-kawasaki-once-stood-up-to-steve-jobs-here-is-the-amazing-response-he-

received.html

Going through this article apple employee discussed what it took to really strive for success working

under Steve Jobs. The ultimate success for working with jobs was simple. Always strive to do your

best and give your very best effort and mindset put forth to deliver you’re very best. Honesty is key,

honesty shows competence and the worth in your work.

Going along with Jobs’ advice of honesty and how it proves character and competence, I completely

agree. You need Intelligence to recognize the truth, and you need strength to speak it. Having both of

these are perfect traits to lead you on a path to success. Leading into doing your best with these

qualities you can go down a road of giving your best effort. Jobs was known to only expect the best

and be rid of those who would not give it. It was of course an expectation taken to a level of no

excuses. To be successful you must give your very best and should expect that superiors expect that

of you.

This source was quite broad in terms of success. It was very biased on an opinion of an

employer/employee level. It brought in two main aspects of what it takes to truly achieve success

and really brings the begging of doing so together.

Ted. “What Is Success?” TED Talks, www.ted.com/playlists/152/what_is_success.

Success is a mastery that everyone is always trying to celebrate. Idea to hit a target is that you aim

for something slightly skewed from it. Success is hitting a 10, Mastery knows you can or cannot do

it. Mastery is not commitment nor excellence; it knows value of a near win. Mastery is sacrificing

for your craft not for making it your career. We thrive not when we have done it all but when we

have more to do.

The clear goal of this TED talk is to inspire and inform the listener that there is only happiness when

there is more to achieve. That true success is when you have reached a goal and can set another, true

mastery knows when to keep going and when to change course. This all comes into a very objective

based piece about pushing yourself as others have done to reach a goal, make new goals and set

goals for others.

This fits in quite nicely about the theme of success. Sarah goes on an talks of all these great artists,

authors and creative minds or successful athletes on not how they achieved what they desired but

why they did. What gave them the strive to want more. What should give them the strive in feeling

that sense of achievement and that “small win.”

Ted.https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_success_is_a_continuous_journey?referrer=playlist-

what_is_success&language=en

Success is thought to be a one-way street, we achieve it and relax and then we fall off and fail.

Reaching success, you work hard but once you reach it the majority of people quit because they

have made it. People get greedy and start worrying about money rather than the passion that gave

them the drive to get them to the success. The black cloud that people get is called Success-to-

failure syndrome.

Reaching success is a fast-paced rush of hard work and no worrying about the task ahead. It is not a

one-way street in fact but a cycle. Achieving success is great yes but sustaining it is a key factor to

being actually successful and happy. Letting any form of discouragement get to you whether it be

from others or your own self be it greed or doubt it is best not to let it get to you.

This talk really opens the eyes of the audience to not only steps taken to get success for yourself but

also maintaining those principles to sustain your success. This is a very unbiased and straightforward

objective talk. It focuses in on what it takes to be successful and to rise from failure, but also brings

in the idea that success is not a winding road but more off a cycle in the sense that processes must be

repeated.