Steve Jobs is one of the super-stars in the history of computers, and you can’t understand one without the history of the other.
A brief history of computers – the role of Steve Jobs and the Mac vs. PC wars
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Becoming Steve Jobs vs. Steve Jobs the official biography, a comparison Part 1/7
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.What skills are necessary to have a successful career? Time and time again I’ve read that the jobs of the future are jobs that don’t even exist; that today’s students will have to be tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. My reading of World Class Learners and Outliers led me to be curious to learn more about the career of Steve Jobs. So I followed those two books by reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, the official biography. Some months later this was the choice for my book club. Instead of rereading Steve Jobs, I decided to gain an alternate perspective by reading Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. Following is a comparison of the two books, Becoming Steve Jobs vs. Steve Jobs the official biography….
5 characteristics for success you can learn from chess
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In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough talks a lot about chess, a full quarter of the book, in fact. But while his stories about chess were interesting, Tough didn’t convince me that teaching kids chess teaches them motivation. But I was able to pick out 5 characteristics for success that chess might be able to teach, that are good lessons in general when trying to reach success….
What is required to get accepted to a a good college? – Part 4/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Once I faced up to the reality that an Ivy League school or elite university wasn’t a real possibility for my kids based on the chances of being admitted to an elite college, the price of an elite education (and location – they are all far away for us), and other information I gathered, I still needed to know what was really required to get accepted at a “good” college….
What are your chances of getting into an elite university and how much will it cost? – Part 3/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.It’s one thing to calculate the numbers for the chances of getting into an elite university and how much it will cost. But you have to wonder, are the numbers really true?
Do the calculations match up to reality?
You can find some arguments that the chances of a “qualified applicant” getting into “at least one” elite college are actually higher….
What is the cost of an elite or Ivy League school? – Part 2/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Long before you start filling out college applications, these days you have to start deciding how many AP classes you’ll need to take before your freshman year of high school . But do you really “need” to take a bunch of AP classes to get into a good college? The answer for attending an elite or Ivy League school is “maybe.” In my last post I looked at the chances of getting into an elite school, even with a steller resume. But assuming you get in, you then have to consider what an Ivy League education would cost? What are the chances of getting a merit scholarship?…
How many AP classes should you take? – Part 1/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.How many AP classes should you take?
Challenge yourself – take as many as you possibly can, be involved in extra-curricular activities, be an officer in a club or organization, volunteer, and in your spare time it would be good if you could do something like start a non-profit. And then you might be able to get into a good university.
Really, who knows? Because lots of kids do all that and then they don’t get into a “good” university.
So you better try to do more.
Because if you have a smart kid who likes to apply themselves, you want them to have a shot at success! Don’t you? And if they don’t get into one of the top universities, they’ve lost their chance at success. Right?
That’s the advice high school students and their parents hear. But is it accurate advice? The high school schedule that results from that advice is such a killer, I decided to do some research into what’s really required….
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I’m still not up to speed after breaking my wrist so this blog will be silent for awhile yet. But I have started posting over at one of my other blogs, High School, College, Success! so it seems like a good time to remind you about it. If you have a kid in high school, or if you’ve got a younger kid who’s getting buried under homework, you’ll find some information that will interest you. My most recent posts look at the outlying successes profiled in the book Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell. There’s also PSAT, National Merit, and college information with more to be posted soon.
Outliers Book Review – Obsession to success, Part 4/4
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My dissatisfaction with the current overbearing schedule for students in high school, has led me to do quite a bit of reading. (To see my reading list for books about success and education, click here.) One of the first books I read was Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcom Gladwell.
In the first half, Gladwell showed how the success of Outliers can be tied to luck, to timing, to “Opportunity.”
In the second half, Gladwell showed how the success of Outliers is also affected by where you come from and your culture, “Legacy.”
In my third post, I looked at my own conclusions from Outliers about what you needed to do to be successful. Hint: It has nothing to do with being a straight-A student.)
But the book is about what makes people an outlying success, like Steve Jobs. What factors does Gladwell think it takes to be an outlying success? Obsession….
Outliers Book Review – What you need for success, Part 3/4
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.My dissatisfaction with the current overbearing schedule for students in high school, has led me to do quite a bit of reading. (To see my reading list for books about success and education, click here.) One of the first books I read was Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcom Gladwell.
In the first half, Gladwell showed how the success of Outliers can be tied to luck, to timing, to “Opportunity.”
In the second half, Gladwell showed how the success of Outliers is also affected by where you come from and your culture, “Legacy.”
There’s nothing like taking the evidence presented to you and thinking that you can come up with a better explanation, even though you’re getting all the information from a secondary source. 🙂 (In other words, I didn’t get to see all the evidence Galdwell collected, just what he presented to me in this book.) But I think all the information can point to a different, more hopeful, and more active interpretation.
What you need for success – my take on Outliers, by Gladwell
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