What did Steve Jobs learn from John
Lennon and The Beatles? Today many of
us aspire to learn a thing or two from
the life of Steve Jobs but very few of us
are aware that Steve Jobs himself learned
a thing or two from John Lennon and
The Beatles.
My name is Gaurav and I let you know
what exactly that thing is but before I
do that let me introduce you to this
YouTube channel real quick.
The name of this YouTube channel is
Epiphany by Gaurav.
Epiphany means a sudden moment of
realization and I find myself way too
familiar to situations where I feel
that oh I have had a sudden moment of
realization so I thought I should
probably start my own YouTube channel
and name it Epiphany by Gaurav.
alright so let's get back to where we
started
What did Steve Jobs learn from John
Lennon and The Beatles? I was reading
this biography by Walter Isaacson and I
found the answer to that question in this
book in chapter 32 of this book there's
an excerpt that i would like to read out
to you and that except has the answer to what
Steve Jobs learned from John Lennon and the
Beatles. So let me read that excerpt for you.
Among Jobs's prized CDs was a bootleg
that contained a dozen or so taped
sessions of The Beatles revising
"Strawberry
Fields Forever."
It became the musical score to his
philosophy of how to perfect a product.
Andy Hertzfeld had found the CD and made
a copy of it for Jobs in 1986, though Jobs
sometimes told folks that it had come from
Yoko Ono. Sitting in the living room of
his Palo Alto home one day, Jobs rummaged
around in some glass-enclosed book cases
to find it, then put it on while
describing what it had taught him.
"It's a complex song, and it's fascinating
to watch the creative process as they
went back and forth and finally created
it over a few months. Lennon was always
my favourite Beatle. [He laughs as Lennon
stops during the first take and makes
the band go back and revise a chord.]
Did you hear that little detour 
they took?
It didn't work so they back and
started from where they were.
It's so raw in this version.
It actually makes them sound like mere mortals.
You could actually imagine other
people doing this up to this version.
Maybe not the writing and conceiving it,
but certainly playing it. Yet they just
didn't stop.
They were such perfectionists they
kept it going and going.
This made a big impression on me when I
was in my thirties. You could just tell
how much they worked at this.
They did a bundle of work between each
of these recordings. They kept sending it
back to make it closer to perfect.
[As he listens to the third take, he points 
out
how the instrumentation has gotten more 
complex.]
The way we build stuff at Apple is often this
way. Even the number of models we'd
make of a new notebook or iPod.
We would start off with a version and then
begin refining and refining,
doing detailed models of the design,
or the buttons, or how a function operates.
It's a lot of work, but in the end
it just gets better, and soon
it's like, "Wow, how did they do that?!?
Where are the screws?" So this was the excerpt after
reading which, in my moment of Epiphany,
I discovered three things. First, we should
not hesitate to go back to the start and
start from scratch. Doing so allows us to
apply the knowledge that we acquired
from our previous attempts and increases
the chances of us doing better this time
around.
Also, it may be that things do work out
in our favour this time.
Second, to acknowledge the fact that great work
cannot be done with haste.
We should be willing to dedicate our
time and energy towards the things that
we believe in. Third, and probably the
most important one was that perfection
just like happiness is a pursuit it
comes only to those who are persistent
enough to keep moving ahead and have a
faith in themselves that they will
eventually reach where they want to even
though they are not able to do so right
now
eventually they will be able to do so.
I hope that by this video i was able to
give you some inspiration to go ahead
in life with the persistent attitude.
You too can give me some inspiration by
sharing this video with the people you
know and by subscribing to this channel.
I look forward to being with you again
very soon with another video and sharing
with you another moment of my Epiphany.
