In Fortune Magazine, Steve Jobs said, "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Life is brief and then you die... So it'd better be damn good."  How can we make our lives that damn good?                    Anonymous

A: Ever life can be a damn good one

Dear Anonymous

Steve’s quote is interesting because it reveals a model that I think Steve didn’t followed himself.  The model is, “Be excellent, so you can do great things in a short lifetime.”  Is that how Steve did it?  No.

Steve Jobs a driver who is also a visionary.  He has high standards and demands excellence from others.   He never settles for ordinary. 

That is not the same thing as being excellent.  Steve has never been about “being”; Steve’s life is all about “doing”, not about being excellent, but about making excellence.

I love the quote from Joe Sabah, “You don’t have to be good to start, but you have to...

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