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A blog response to a facebook post @ http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Blackstones-World-Without-Walls-ES2007S/160623160652040
Steve Job said "sometimes life's going to hit you in the head but don't lose faith". Steve Jobs---you gotta be kidding me!!! That doesn't make sense in the way I think it is intended.
It should read "sometimes life's going to hit you in the head, so go ahead and lose faith!!!"
Why would I ever say that?
When life hits you in the head, that is trouble! What is trouble? It is some sort of a life trial; it is hard to swallow and you may find yourself in a pit helpless and lost; trouble invariably accompanies a sense of desperation. In short, trouble activates your rudimentary flight-and-fight system defense designed with an eye for overall comfort and pleasure. To obtain ever more comfort and pleasure, your system defense needs to be exposed to ever more troubles to come up with ever more sophisticated solutions from which you obtain pleasure and comfort. Through these higher level processes, your fight-and-flight system gets refined so that the fight-and-flight systems of men in Stone ages are different from the ones in our modern world. With regards to these, Steve Jobs statement is clearly correct. BUT he needs to be more articulate about what happens before the stage-process of 'dont-lose-faith' in a human trial; because when trouble first hits any normal human being, he or she doesn't smile and immediately regains his faith in whatever it is that he has faith in, am I right? Only a divine being can do that, because the first response of any human being ( assuming he doesnt face the same exact trial multiple times in a row and therefore gotten wave of the trajectory of the trial and as a result know what to expect every step of the way) in a trial IS a lost of faith or some faith. That is to be expected, because the subject is human and humans are affective beings. But then the lost of faith accompanies a deep sense of reflection, stock-taking of trial, risk assessment/projection, and any other forms of mental/physical/spiritual calculation needed for recovering both your faith and confidence again. In other words, the lost of faith is a crucial and I dare say memorable interlude out of trouble. How could Steve Jobs overlook this tiny but significant detail? Maybe its a different Steve Jobs that took to the pulpit lol, kiddin..
Steve Job said "sometimes life's going to hit you in the head but don't lose faith". Steve Jobs---you gotta be kidding me!!! That doesn't make sense in the way I think it is intended.
It should read "sometimes life's going to hit you in the head, so go ahead and lose faith!!!"
Why would I ever say that?
When life hits you in the head, that is trouble! What is trouble? It is some sort of a life trial; it is hard to swallow and you may find yourself in a pit helpless and lost; trouble invariably accompanies a sense of desperation. In short, trouble activates your rudimentary flight-and-fight system defense designed with an eye for overall comfort and pleasure. To obtain ever more comfort and pleasure, your system defense needs to be exposed to ever more troubles to come up with ever more sophisticated solutions from which you obtain pleasure and comfort. Through these higher level processes, your fight-and-flight system gets refined so that the fight-and-flight systems of men in Stone ages are different from the ones in our modern world. With regards to these, Steve Jobs statement is clearly correct. BUT he needs to be more articulate about what happens before the stage-process of 'dont-lose-faith' in a human trial; because when trouble first hits any normal human being, he or she doesn't smile and immediately regains his faith in whatever it is that he has faith in, am I right? Only a divine being can do that, because the first response of any human being ( assuming he doesnt face the same exact trial multiple times in a row and therefore gotten wave of the trajectory of the trial and as a result know what to expect every step of the way) in a trial IS a lost of faith or some faith. That is to be expected, because the subject is human and humans are affective beings. But then the lost of faith accompanies a deep sense of reflection, stock-taking of trial, risk assessment/projection, and any other forms of mental/physical/spiritual calculation needed for recovering both your faith and confidence again. In other words, the lost of faith is a crucial and I dare say memorable interlude out of trouble. How could Steve Jobs overlook this tiny but significant detail? Maybe its a different Steve Jobs that took to the pulpit lol, kiddin..
Unless Steve Jobs was talking about the same old familiar troubles and trials of life, his statement presents problems. But I do not think he made a speech just to tell people answers to mirror trials that people themselves would know the answers to. He was clearly talking about unchartered territory and a challenge. And there is no challenge in facing the same old trial.
Probably the final statement should read "sometimes life's going to hit you in the head, so go ahead---lose faith, lose a little more, and come back stronger!!!"
Cheers
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