Problem Boy (Jobs-4)

Like many geniuses, Jobs's childhood also had a glorious "record". Jobs's record can be calculated from the age of three, often waking up at four o'clock in the morning, and then all kinds of harassment activities, and the Pauls bought tape recorder tapes to let him listen to music by himself in order to quiet him. Later, he turned his attention to television, which was almost always turned from morning to night, and Jobs later said that "television is definitely the worst invention in history, because it makes people's minds stagnate." Numerous studies have shown that television is harmful to people's spirit and mind, and it will slow down the brain while consuming a lot of people's time. If you don't believe me, you can go and talk to people who have been watching TV for a long time, they are very unresponsive. ”

Jobs was a curious man, when he was a child, because he was curious about the smell of plastic burning, he put his mother's hairpin with a metal piece into the power jack, resulting in an electric shock burning his hand; curious about the taste of insecticide, he drank a bottle of insecticide... The list goes on and on.

Jobs Elementary School insisted on the "three noes" of not listening to lectures, disobeying management, and not doing homework. He said that those things had been given to him by Clara before she entered the school. Another reason for not studying well was his contempt and always wanted to rebel against authority, and this spirit of rebellion also ran through Jobs's life. He once said of schools and teachers: "They mean to me another form of authority. I hated them, and they snuffed out almost all curiosity in my nature. ”

Jobs, wearing the hat of a "problem student," progressed to fourth grade. Met a female teacher Teddy who changed the trajectory of his life by the nickname of Imogen and full name Imogen. Hill". She watched Jobs for weeks and concluded that it was a clever little guy, just smart in the wrong place. So she gave Jobs a workbook, pulled out an oversized lollipop, and said that if Jobs could answer the math problems correctly, he would belong to him. The reward lasted for a few months, and then Jobs himself proposed not to reward, saying that "I want her to be happy more than the reward." In addition, Teddy will also find some gadgets for Jobs to make some small things himself and cultivate his sense of accomplishment. Jobs recalled, "It was the most rewarding year I've had since I went to school, and it was because of her that I am where I am now." Otherwise I might have gone to jail early, and she saw in me something that no one else could see. So she gave me all her attention."

The good times always pass quickly, and when the fourth grade is almost over in the blink of an eye, Teddy tests Jobs to show that his level of knowledge has reached the second year of junior high school. This made others aware of Jobs's intellectual abnormality, and they wanted Jobs to skip two levels in a row to go directly to the seventh grade, and finally the Jobs decided to let Jobs skip the first level and enter Krittenden Middle School. But the learning environment at this school is not good, and there are fights almost every day. After a semester and a half in the school, he ran home and said to his parents, "I am determined to change schools, and if I don't change schools, I will not go to school." However, at that time, the family's economic situation at that time was only barely balanced. But out of love for their children they accepted, and they spent their savings to buy a house near the best secondary school of the generation, Cupertino Middle School, which was located in Los Altos in the South, which had no character but was of great significance, because Apple was born in the garage of this house, and Jobs met a very important person in his life- Woz.

The new family's neighbor was an organic crop gardener who, when bored, taught Jobs how to grow organic crops, which had a profound effect on Jobs, and from then on Jobs began to eat only organic fruits and vegetables, and another important influence was the pursuit of perfectionism.