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by TheSOB88 5073 days ago
Maybe we can idolize him and not seek to become him, but try to be somewhere in the middle.
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Jobs wasn't just a successful visionary, he was also a guy who bought a hundred identical black polo shirts to last him till he die, and someone who refused medical help for an entire year and tried to cure his cancer thru diet (which might have made a fatal difference, we'll never know), Do you really wish to idolize him, or just the benign and successful aspects of his personality? Can these even be differentiated?
You don't want to idolize ANYONE, but you can respect imperfect people for the good things they did.