Steve Jobs: A Brave New World

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Steve Jobs remained special from his first days of life, primarily because his biological parents sent him for adoption to other family of Jobs’. This new family accepted a child with pleasure and treated him like their own son. Steve’s stepmother Clara was working for accounting firm in Mountain View, while his stepfather was a mechanic in the company specialized in production of lasers. Thus, a boy used to spend his spare time in garages, attics and storerooms full of electronic devices filled with various electronic devices from his early childhood. Literally the sphere of innovative technologies has become home to Stephen: a child was growing up in the heart of computer innovations and high technologies. Such environment might have influenced Jobs's world outlook and reverential attitude to technological progress. (Isaacson, 2011).
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Those began to be obvious after he returned from India and got a task to develop a game called Breakout in Atari company. According to Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, the company offered Jobs to minimize the number of chips on the electronic board and paid $100 for each chip that would be removed from the electronic scheme. As Steve Jobs was not proficient enough in the construction of such electronic circuit boards, he offered Wozniak half of the money prize the company offered to Jobs for fulfillment of this task. Finally, Wozniak managed to remove fifty chips from the electronic board, which appeared to be a sensation at that time. Despite the fact that in his early years Jobs have not possessed high level of emotional intelligence, he already obtained one characteristic that is inherent people with high level of emotional intelligence - self-awareness, which assumes that one clearly realizes his potential and