This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
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My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky ? I found what I loved to do early in life.
Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20.
We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
We had just released our finest creation ? the Macintosh ? a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.
And then I got fired.
How can you get fired from a company you started?
Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.