Steve Jobs' Most Valuable Talent?

While Steve Jobs was clearly intelligent, focused and relentless, his greatest talent just might have been his acute comfort in his own skin.

...And his “unmessable with” faith in the glory of his mission.

...And his rare capacity to stand in his own power in the face of critics, cynics and naysayers.

He had the internal strength, sense of self and passionate authenticity to live his ambitions, speak his truth and be himself, at all costs.

His vision and the product mattered more to him than being adored by others. And fitting in.

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One of my favorite stories on leadership and being an inspiration, even in difficult times, you know, comes from Steve Jobs. You know, when he was a young kid, his father said, Steve, go outside and paint the fence in front of the house. Steve Jobs said to his father, no problem. He loved his dad very much.His dad was a craftsman. That's where he learned this love of detail. So a few hours later, his father comes outside and sort of inspects the fence. And he goes, well, Steve, you know, you did a great job painting the outside of the fence, but you didn't paint the inside of the fence. And Steve Jobs looks up at his dad and he says, well dad, no one's gonna see the inside of the fence. And Steve Jobs' father looks at his son and says, but son, we will. Well now it's the mid 1980s and Steve Jobs is sitting around with his design team and they're working on the first Apple Macintosh. And he looks at his team and he says, you know, I want this computer to be a work of art. Because you know, he loved works of art. But he said the real deliverable gang is this. I want the inside of the computer to be so beautiful, it brings tears to people's eyes. And the people around them said, well, Steve, no one's gonna see the inside of the computer. And Steve Jobs looked at his design team and said, but we will. And when Steve Jobs saw the first Apple Macintosh, he started to cry. Because Steve Jobs was really not an entrepreneur. He was an artist. And he looked at his design team and he said, I want you to sign. the circuitboard. And they said, why Steve? And he said, because all artists sign their work. Inspiration is unbelievably important when you go to work every day. You want to radiate that positive energy. You want to be that person, even if things are falling apart, or you lost the deal, or people are negative. You say, hey gang, you know what? Adversity is nothing more than opportunity in Wolf's clothing.