“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you” Steve Jobs
Id heard this a hundred times, but around 30 years old it clicked and has fundamentally changed how I view things.
Id heard this a hundred times, but around 30 years old it clicked and has fundamentally changed how I view things.
I don't buy the "no smarter than you" part though.
Whether some people really were "smarter" than you (whatever that means) is not relevant to the point of the Jobs quote, I think.
Perhaps the point of the quote is to encourage people to falsely over-estimate their own smartness in order to maximise the likelihood they'll try to make a difference - because a tiny percentage actually will.
Because, a lot of people like jobs had similar experiences in the early days, e.g. Palo Alto Research Lab around them - though, it was Jobs who came up with the idea, not any other of the SC veterans :)