《史蒂夫·乔布斯传》读后感

“活着就是为了改变世界，难道还有其他原因吗？”

——史蒂夫·乔布斯

《乔布斯传》封面上那个戴着无框圆镜片眼镜，满脸胡渣分明的乔布斯，我笑了笑，当年的意气风发，如今却是瘦骨嶙峋。这都是由于他所患的癌症。

本书作者通过乔布斯本人及家人、朋友甚至是竞争对手提供的资料完成了这本书，从各个角度呈现给我们各个时期，各种事件亲历者的叙述及看法，力图还原真实，有赞有骂，可以看到其天才的一面，也可以看到其不受欢迎的一面，避免一般传记的唱赞歌的形式，力图客观真实。讲述了乔布斯光芒四射而又短暂的一生，并且客观的评价了乔布斯，呈献给读者一个真正的乔布斯。

乔布斯从小被收养，亲生父母因为生父是叙利亚的穆斯林，生母的父亲不同意其生母与生父结婚不得不让他被收养。我想也许这也是促使他对宗教的研究的因素之一吧。也许他一直在想他的外祖父为什么要不容许他的生母嫁给异教徒，即使要付出外孙要被收养的代价也不改变。从小就表现的桀骜不驯，13岁就十分的有自己的独立思想，宣布再也不想崇敬上帝，再也不去教堂，但他却花好几年的时间研究并尝试实践佛教禅宗的教义。19岁的他去了印度进行一次精神之旅，呆了7个月，回来后通过各种途径追求精神启蒙，早上和晚上他会冥想及禅修，其余时间去斯坦福大学旁听物理学及工程学的课程。 1

读乔布斯的传记，你会发现乔布斯的成功也并不是一帆风顺的，他经历的坎坷，比你我只会多不会少，但与一般人不同的是，他毫不畏惧，在内心深处的理想引领下，坚持把每一天都当成生命的最后一天来战斗，最终成就了非凡的苹果。乔布斯是苹果的灵魂人物，他的独特人格魅力也融入到苹果公司的角落。他极具说服力，敢于冒险，相信直觉，同时又不空等，积极去寻找机会和创造实现想法的可能。一切以行动说话，打造属于自己的现实。

这也给我了很多的启示：

一、 执着的信念和坚定的信仰

这里所说的信仰，并非关于宗教和哲学。而是个人的精神探求和行为准则。就是一个人的思想。乔布斯念大学时，接触到了禅学，这进一步改变了他的人生。是他成为一个素食主义者。书上讲，他几乎每周都去练禅，老师是一个日本人。（禅，本是一个中国的国粹，却被日本人保留并发扬，这又是一部文章可写的东西）禅，讲究抛弃一切逻辑思维，进入一个生命自悟的状态，强

调直觉。）这正是乔布斯的特点之一：listen to your inner voice。 特殊的领养儿身份，造就了乔布斯独特的人生思想；少年时的印度之行，以及后来的的禅学热爱。这些都给予了他一种我们所无法理解的思想性格，就像某种信仰一样坚定。

二、不惧怕失败

不断的尝试和努力，永远不放弃内心的追求，这是他身上永不服输的韧劲。19xx年乔布斯因与管理层的分歧被迫离开自己亲手创办 2

的苹果，那年他刚30岁，，这种打击几乎放在任何一个人身上都是毁灭性的。但是，他没有从此沉沦下去，他重新振作起来，创办了NEXT公司，后面又收购了皮克斯。虽然NEXT公司时浮时沉，没有多大起色，但皮克斯公司却开创了数字动画电影的辉煌。后来NEXT公司被苹果收购后，他又回到苹果，临危受命重新缔造了苹果复兴的神话。他热爱创新更有着常人不能比的激情和创造力，让他在一次又一次的失败打击下不断走向成功。当他被诊断为胰腺癌，并被告知只有几周生命时，他却说没有什么比垂死更能让人集中精神。20xx年他在斯坦福大学的演讲时说： 没有人愿意死。就算想上天堂的人也不希望通过死去那个地方。但是，死亡是我们共同的终点。没有人逃得过。 你的时间是有限的，所以不要浪费在过别人的生活上。不要受困于教条，也就是按照别人思考的结果生活。不要让他人的意见淹没你内心的声音。最重要的是，有勇气遵从你的内心和直觉。它们不知道你真正想成为什么。其他的都是次要的。”他说的话更好的诠释了他的成功是有勇气去坚持内心的声音和直觉并为之不懈奋斗。

三、让身边的人更优秀，与他们共同打造一个完美的团队，这样自己想做的事情才会实现。

不管他承不承认，乔布斯不是什么都会的。没错，他可以对每个产品每个广告活动施加巨大的影响，但他也知道，世界有些人的技能是他无法企及的。乔布斯 早期和Steve Wozniak的搭档就充分说明 3

了这一点。和Wozniak搭档而获得了早期的成功，给乔布斯未来和别人的通力协作提供了模板。

通常情况下，公司和经理会满足于水平一般的员工。而乔布斯重视人才，并认定在一家全是A级员工的公司里，任何矛盾摩擦都可以被出色的成果所抵消。他可能是正确的。

“生活里的大多数东西，最好的和平庸的之间约有30%的差距。最好的航班、最好的膳食，都可能比平庸的要好上30%。在我 眼里，和水平一般的工程师相比，Wozniak要好上50倍。他光用脑子想就能开会。Mac团队就是打造A级团队的一个尝试。人们说他们无法和睦相处，说他们会相互憎恨，但我发现A级员工喜欢和A级员工共事，他们压根就不想和C级的人共事。”

“这么些年来，我懂得了，要是你有非常优秀的员工，你根本不需要像照看婴儿般看着他们，”乔布斯后来解释，“期待他们有优秀的成果，你就能让他们做出优秀的成果出来。”

这是乔布斯的经验之谈，也是当代管理者最值得注重的地方，。众人是柴火焰高，但每个人拾起的柴火质量各不相同，所以又要有人拾柴又要保障柴的质量。放在团队里，我们就一定要去培养精英，这样一个高效的团队才会有卓越的成绩。所以无论是团队的领导者还是队员在自我发展的同时更要注重队友的进步，去共同打造完美的A级团队。

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生命有时会给你迎头痛击，但绝不要失去信念。生活也永远会有我们完全无法预料的东西，坚持把每一天都当成是自己生命的最后一天来战斗，乔布斯一个传奇的人物，无论从大的industry view,还是直接的consumer experience上来说，当今时代，最伟大的商业领袖，非乔布斯莫属 。让我们坚定我们的信心，在乔布斯精神的指引下去创造自己的传奇！

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第二篇：乔布斯传读后感(英文版)

The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is the former chief executive officer and cofounder of Apple. Also, people consider him as one of the most brilliant and successful entrepreneur in the past decades. Apple achieves a series success under his wise leading, which makes people curious about knowing his secret and everything. Apple and their products including Iphone and Ipad have changed peoples’ attitude toward electronic devices. Moreover, they change the way of our routine life, more and more people are regarding Apple products as one part of their life. Apple achieves a series success under his leading, which arise people’s curiosity to his everything. What drive them different and change the world. One of the significant elements is Innovation and creation. Employers in apple are indeed the people who think differently with others so that their products are revolutionary and perfect in current time. Steve Jobs shows us seven principles of innovation in his book The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs. In this essay, I will explain and take some examples for each of them.

Principle 1: Do what you love

Jobs said “do what you love” He means one should have courage to follow your heart. Everyone had a dream when he was young, but for many reasons, they gave it up. It is indeed hard for one to preserve his dream. When you spend so much energy and time on one thing, there are such rough moments

in time and most people give up. Innovation starts from the interest and passion, without passion and enthusiasm nothing can drive you keeping innovation ideas to something. Take Jobs and Wozniak as an example, it is their passion and interest to electronic equipment that drive these two Steve (both their given name is Steve) together and start this legend.

There is something that we should learn from this principle. Firstly, It is barely possible for anyone who succeed without doing things you love, so find your love before you start anything. Secondly, one must trust his passion and never fear of facing the failure.

Principle 2: Put a dent in the universe

Every innovation at Apple starts with a big, bold vision and a heavy dose of inspiration. And Steve Jobs is quite well-known for his “reality distortion field”, a phenomenon attributed to Jobs where the leader convinces his team that nothing is impossible. One of his motivating sentences was “let’s make a dent in the universe”. People always underestimate the power of a vision or just a idea, actually sometimes, it is some bold vision or a innovation idea that move the world forward, for example, Jobs ,himself, didn’t invent personal computer, nor did he invent the MP3 player, he innovated around those with the introduction of Mac and iPod. He didn’t invent the tablet computer or smartphone, he put all his time into the iPhone and the iPad, without a bold

vision, Jobs and his teams will get nothing but an empty dream. Every innovation at Apple starts with a big, bold vision and a big bunch of inspiration.

What passion to a successful people is what fuel to a car, but vision provides the map of your road. When we want to make a vision and run after it, it is better to make sure that the vision has some common characters such as specific, concise and consistent.

Principle 3: Kick-Start your brain

We can not deny that daily routine is the golden mind source of many brilliant people, especially inventors. Jobs said “Creativity is just connecting things”. Which means that is not a difficult thing for anyone. Actually it is not a big deal but just “connecting the dots in your life” Jobs also said it in the commencement of Stanford. Yet it is a pity that few people can think things differently and connect them in a new way. Significant one of Apple’s ideas is that they use analogies or metaphors to think about a problem, specifically, by finding the similarities between two things that are unlike. Take the Macintosh as an example, Part of what made it great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, artists and zoologists It is a work of art rather than an electronic product. How accurate it is! People who are filled with innovation ideas always can extend their thoughts to some other fields and get into a new high level by activating each other.

Another interesting but real example we can found is in the year 2009, the Obama government made a action that shocked the people a little bit. They recruited lots of famous fiction novelists to work with the FBI in order to anticipate the Bin Laten’s shelter and recent plan. But it did work a little bit and even a new anti-terrorism strategy.

Catching the inspirations from experiments and other fields sometime is a good way to find new connection. But mostly find the connection between unfamiliar things and keep passion to ask, more importantly, never fear the changes is indeed the point of hunting success.

Principle 4: Sell Dreams, Not products

Frankly speaking, Apple products like Mac and iPhone etc. indeed are the symbol of fashion, but Apple never declare that he is the leader of fashion.their The main reason of that is their attitude toward products and customers. They try to provide the best products to their customers who also have a making world changed dream so that they don’t just sell for current profits but for making their dream real. It is well known that Jobs do a market research or investigate before build a new product, differently from others, but he still build great products without focus groups. However, it’s not to say that Apple does not listen to its customers. Actually it seems none can know their customers

better than them. As jobs said, “we, too, are going to think differently and serve the people who have been buying our products since the beginning”. Apple and Jobs indeed always create things that are not their customers want right now, but what they want in future. Take iPad as an example, it used to be considered as an unworthy product, because people don’t need it, while jobs think people will need a device which makes browse web and check email easier, it is also supposed to provide a new experience for entertainment which is between laptop and phones. That is the original model of iPad. Without a brave but smart thought like that, iPad won’t be one of the most popular equipment now. It is hard to say whether Apple’s strategies are available for every enterprise, however, they use their own way to catch their customers closely to their products, which is definitely a special but effective method.

There are thousands of electronic corporations in China, but none of them has any style like Apple, they just follow the so called customer’s current need and make a little profit by producing in a fast way. So, lots of companies have to survive only on changing with the market and following foreign fashion. People buy their products just for the low price. In my opinion, they should pay more attention on customers’ dream rather than their requirements and stop copying from others, no one would like to use the toilet papper which has already used even though you offer them in a low price. Instead they should make some

products on behalf of the spirit or inspiration of their company.

Principle 5: Say no to 1000 things

The motto for Jobs as well as Apple, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, is widely showed in Apple’s products. Take Jobs’s famous two-by-two printed tables as an example. The simple chart make everything clearly to design a great product, it make your goals crystal. As Jonathan Ive, Apple design leader, said “The way we approach design is by trying to achieve the most with very least.” In the book ‘Steve Jobs’ we know that, Steve is different in conference and meeting. Jobs never believe in ‘Market research’, all he wants to do is that provide a prefect tools for the people who want to change the world. As a consequence of that, Apple just produce the most friendly and easy-used electronic for people.

Sometimes, rejection is also a rebirth which will buy yourself a new chance.

Principle 6: Create insanely great experiences

Companies focus on Service and experiences a lot. consumer’s choice also mainly depends on their experience. So what Steve and Apple do to his consumers? “People don’t want to just buy personal computer any more. They want to know what they can do with them, and we’re going to show people exactly that.” Jobs said. So, Apple’s consumers have been given surprising but

reasonable experiences ever since the beginning. Although many consultant strongly doubt that they have aimed at unworthy target , Jobs still carry on with his own idea, he create a special retailer-Apple Store where people could get a surprising new experience. Jobs insist the decoration in every store must gorgeous, simple, and filled with sense of technology so that he use some expensive marble and other materials to decorate the store. And it turnout that Jobs was right again, after so many suspicions.

Different experience makes you no only feel different, but also think different, behave different and decide different. But we have to keep it in a right and controllable way.

Principle 7: Master the message

Ideas are not really just a pool of dead water if they are confined only to a person’s mind. Communication skills is necessary and effective for a innovator, there are 4 steps to communicating value. First of all tell some classical stories. Then, keep everyone aligned. Next, make the proper atmosphere. Finally, encourage presentation skills development. Steve Jobs is widely considered as a brilliant storyteller. He declare that a good presentation sometimes is even more important than the product itself. Think about iPad , “Our most advanced technology in the magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.” That what Jobs said on his own to us in a magic method.

As a consumer said that it seems Jobs presentation has magic so that people can not deny it. With Jobs special ability to persuade others, many business plans have been proceeded successfully as if there were a potential guarantee.

To sum up, Steve Jobs’ secret on innovation and creation is showed step by step in the 7 principles. I think we should think and digest it differently in our own way. It can not be denied that Jobs’ story do work on Jobs, but maybe not on you. Maybe some rules work on you but not all of them, then, you still can not become Jobs. So, create our own principles is the right way to seek for a better future on not only career but also the whole life.

Liu Yi 201197038