The world is not just about the body, but it's about the inner power to make things happen. Steve Jobs is such a person who brought computer technology to the masses. Everyone knows the iconic product of Apple - iPhones, but there are more than those we know about. Steve Jobs was not afraid to take bold decisions and, by doing so, he challenged the conventional world.
1. Jobs Was Preparing to Become a Buddhist Monk
Steve Jobs traveled to india in search of spiritual enlightenment at the Neem Karoli Ashram, Nainital, Uttarakhand. Unfortunately when he arrived the previous year he learned of neem carly's death so he changed his plans instead he went to Hariakhan Babaji's ashram and stayed for seven months before returning to the U.S. Jobs began to study Zen Buddhism which became a significant part of his life at one point he considered becoming a monk in Japan.
2. He Eats Only Fruits
Steve Jobs also made his workplaces a bit more uncomfortable after committing to diets of only one or two fruits for weeks at a time he believed partaking in fruitarianism the vegan subset diet of eating only fruit would eliminate his need for showering so he could spend even more time mapping out and constructing new Apple products early employees of jobs noticed that this diet not only forced him to have to work the night shift at Atari due to complaints about his but his skin color even changed to a sunset hue because of his restrictive diet.
3. He Used to Wear The Same Clothes
Steve Jobs dress the same way every day the clothing isn't identical but it's in the same style jobs instituted a dress code consisting of a black turtleneck blue jeans and sneakers his style was simple but he became well known for it he only wore levi's jeans and is said to have owned 100 pairs.
4. He Wanted Perfection in Every Product
He did make the necessary altercations to the devices and monitors that made them appear more user-friendly and accessible in an effort to demonstrate. A point about making the original iPod even smaller than what was first handed to him Jobs dropped the music player into an aquarium and pointed out the bubbles that rose to the surface from the device Jobs told his engineers that these were air bubbles which meant there was space in the device to cram the instruments in engineering even closer together to produce a smaller iPod the folks at Apple have continued to take on this challenge while the first iPod was nineteen point nine millimeters thin the most recent model is 6.1 millimeters.
5. Jobs Daughter Inspired The Name of Apple's Computer
Steve's wife Laurene Powell was the mother of only three of his four children, his on-again off-again homestead high girlfriend Chrisann Brennan gave birth to his first child when Brennan found out she was pregnant jobs denied responsibility prompting brennan to end her relationship with jobs. When Lisa-Nicole-Brennan-Jobs was born Jobs was not present at Lisa's birth but he did visit Brennan three days later, they choose the name Lisa for their daughter. Jobs then christened the computer he was working on the apple lisa he later denied publicly naming the system after his daughter claiming that lisa stood for 'Local Integrated Systems Architecture' later in his career he admitted that he named the project after his daughter.
6. He Was Homeless
Throughout all his eccentric and questionable behavior job still came from very humble beginnings in the 2005. Jobs claimed that throughout his brief time in college he was homeless and without a dorm room often opting to sleep on the floor in his friends rooms he obsessively collected coke bottles for five cents in an effort to pay for food and would travel seven miles across town every Sunday in order to have one good meal a week at the Harry Krishna temple.
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7. Founder of Pixar
The company we know today as Pixar was saved by Steve Jobs on numerous occasions Jobs purchased the company from Star Wars creator George Lucas for 10 million dollars in 1986 and then spearheaded and oversaw production of the company's first feature film Toy Story. Jobs also helped fine-tune the story of the movie as it was originally written with woody as a bad guy when Jobs sold Pixar back to the Walt Disney Company in 2006 it came with a price tag of 7.4 billion dollars this deal made Steve Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney.
8. He Has More Than 300 Patents
The exact number of patents with jobs named as solar co-inventor varies by country. Jobs holds 43 patents for inventions with the rest all being for design he is the owner of patents for speakers, stairwells packages, power adapters phones and other products. Jobs received the patent for the Mac OS X Dock user interface the day before his death he has received an additional 141 patents as a result jobs name can be found in hundreds of patents.
9. Steve Jobs Met His Sister
When jobs was 27 he met his biological sister because he was adopted as a child and had no knowledge of his biological family learning about his sister took a long time when jobs was 27 he tracked down his sister author Mona Simpson and the two men anywhere but here her first book was about her relationship with her biological parents.
10. Majority of His Net Worth From Disney's Shares
In the year of his death, he had a net worth of $10.2 billion. Steve Job's net worth of $1 million in 1978, when he was just 23 years old. Jobs worth was $250 million just two years later. His net worth was $10.2 billion at the time of his death in 2011. The majority of his income came from his Disney's shares rather than Apple.
11. 19 Days After His Death Steve Jobs Autobiography Was Published
Jobs began to open up about his life and participate in journalist interviews Walter Isaacson was given permission by jobs to write his only biography with the exception of the cover image. Isaacson had complete creative control over the biography Jobs gave Isaacson permission to conduct candid interviews with friends family and co-workers in order to create a true account of his life for the book. The book is based on over 40 interviews with Jobs and hundreds of interviews with people who knew him Jobs stated that he did not want to read the book before it was published because he wanted it to be a true and unbiased account.
12. Statue of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is remember with a statue in Budapest, Hungary a nearly seven foot tall 2.1 meter tall bronze statue of Steve Jobs stands in Hungary's capital. Erno Toth created the sculpture for graphisoft a hungarian software company the statue was erected on december 21, 2011. Following his death that year the statue was erected to commemorate jobs contributions to the technology industry as well as his assistance to graphisoft during their communist rule the statue can be found at graphisoft park which also houses other technology and science firms.
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