Learning from others is fantastic.
The truth is, Jobs was as different from his rivals as they are to him.
Becoming Steve Jobs isn’tthekey to success.
And there are plenty of others:
Think of the startup myth of a bunch guys in a garage.
Or the one that all founders have to work for 80-hour weeks to be successful.
Or how every successful designer is obsessive about every last detail.
We don’t need more Mark Zuckerberg-types creating startups or Stefan Sagmiester-types creating art.
We need new ideas and new perspectives, which starts with owning who you uniquely are.
It’s great to learn from people who have been there before.
Someone who’s achieved success can probably tell you something about how to get there.
However their life had very different circumstances than yours probably does.
The Narrative Fallacy: Only Idiots Copy Steve Jobs| 99u
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