Steve Jobs He marked, with his passion for technology, a good part of the world in which we live. The legacy of the founder of Manzana it increases with the passage of time, after his death in 2011 victim of cancer.
Today we will analyze one of its most curious secrets: how handwriting helped him become a genius. And when we talk about curiosity, it is because today’s world is practically limited to the keys of the telephone or computer.
Less and less, especially after leaving initial education, we are dedicated to writing by hand. The calligraphy ends up becoming not only a mess, but also an awkward situation for someone who has spent so much time typing.
But for Steve Jobs, (who was left-handed) writing by hand was a blessing. And even if he didn’t have the best penmanship in the world, it showed a lot about his character.
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Douglas Crowe of Entrepreneur recalled in an article how Jobs took a calligraphy class at Reed College in 1972.
Jobs said that he had learned “about serif and san serif typefaces, about how to vary the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes a great typeface great.”
“It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science cannot capture. I found it fascinating.”
Jobs considered that writing by hand stimulated creativity, besides giving him a different perspective to any problem he faced.
I considered him part of the diverse experiences, necessary for the development of any work.
“Many people in our industry have not had very diverse experiences,” said the father of Apple in his book I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words. “Therefore, they don’t have enough dots to connect and end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective of the problem.”
“The broader the understanding of human experience, the better design we will have”.
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During Jobs’s lifetime, many studies on his firm. One of them, shared by the portal WriteChoice, He pointed out that his personality was consolidated in its hard edges, as well as in simplified writing, without ornaments or unnecessary lines.
It also showed that he was caustic and forceful with words, very energetic, with a strong and clear vision.
For many it was simply a man who really loved his job, who found her passion and followed her heart. Hence, the success he obtained and that continues today, despite his death.