Steve Jobs | Life-Built Poems

PASSION IS A FEELING YOU CAN USE

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Oh, finally! After beaucoup years of nonsense about “finding your passion” and “following your bliss,” people of influence are finally telling us more ordinary sorts a better truth. Passion is not a path. Passion is not a guidepost. Passion is really not a will-o-the-wisp phosphorescent light that dances ahead of you and maybe leads you into a bog or something. Passion is a feeling. It comes, it goes, it morphs, it grows. And, more than anything (like every other human…

STANDING IN AMBIGUITY

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Another IPS (Inner Peace Symptom): an understanding that the willingness to stand still in the middle of uncertainty without giving in to despair allows for new opportunities to show up and gives you the space you need to notice them. [If you focus on fears and doubts, there really is no room in your head for paying attention when a new door opens.] Apple founder Steve Jobs had an interesting take on how to deal with the uncertainty of life. …

POST-MODERN MEANING AND MANA

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In my own art and poetry, I am wanting a “Polynesian aesthetic” in my work … what I hope is a “native” feeling to it. Even more than that, I’d like it to be a part of my business. This Polynesian aesthetic incorporates three things – a high level of skill, indirectness, and mo’olelo (story). What makes an object a work of art to me is a feeling that the thing is “special,” imbued with a sense of the person…