Book Review - Steve Jobs Biography

We have to be mature enough to separate certain abilities in people and their human qualities.

Your focus on few extremely wealthy people is kind of misdirected. Particularly those individuals you have mentioned - titans and creators of new industries. There is huge number of very wealthy people who have actually contributed little or nothing to society. Closeness to political or financial power can do that, as an example. As a side-thought, nobody was questioning wealth of Jobs or Gates while they were creating those changes. Nobody is questioning Musk wealth now either. It is only once those people retire their wealth becomes questionable. As if people have short memory to remember those days when world was changed by them. There should be street and square naming after them instead of bashing their wealth.

Personally I thoroughly can recommend some Richard Branson books if you are interested in a person's lifestory who has achieved nearly everything: He is not only an extraordinarily successfull business person, but he has shown the world that even profit orientated business can do a lot of positive changes to other people's life, that business doesn't have to be miserable at all and both customers and employees can enjoy themselves whilst going towards a very ambitious goal whilst, he has a very good family life, got engaged in some huge adventures and most importantly he is feeling happy in general. I definitely see him as a businessman who raised above nearly all of those narcistic billionaries.

You are comparing normal teachers vs top sports players. Why not compare top sports players with top teachers and normal teachers with normal sports players. I can ensure you the top uni teachers/heads make heaps of money as well

Very interesting review Alexander. I had pretty much the exact same thoughts when I read the book years ago. And about the poor/rich debate I have the same dilemma and cannot make up my mind on the situation. I do lean more towards a more equal society for all though because it leads to a better society overall even for the rich people living in it as opposed to them amassing all that wealth but living in a high crime/violent society. I don't think it's worth the trade off. And I personally on a personal level wouldn't want mega levels of wealth for other reasons one of them being that you become a tool for people to use pretty much and they only will want you for your wealth. So we share lots of thoughts. And was interesting to hear your review. Great video!

I've been a big fan of Steve, and also followed his history. You bring up a hypothesis that the most successful people (like government leaders) tend to have psychological disorders. I'd turn that around, and say that the definitions of psychological "disorders" are defined in terms of the average person, and the average person's life. They are created (in the DSM, specifically) by doctors to help other doctors provide treatments to the average client, to help improve their lives on average. But each "disorder" actually presents a tradeoff in life, and in extreme cases -- with people who are trying to run a government, for instance -- the tradeoff might be a positive one. In this case, I wouldn't call it a "disorder" anymore. I'd call it a tradeoff -- like a high risk/reward ratio -- for highly successful people. I'd put it in the same category as "dedicating your life to being an artist" or "taking a loan to start a company" -- these are things that are likely to cause great suffering if you fail, but they also have a great upside. They aren't disorders, just risky approaches.

The amount of money someone makes has nothing to do with how hard working he is or how much his job gives to society. It is almost purely based on supply and demand. People are in the job market and they are selling them selves and thier unique set of abilities. You could argue that teachers are really hard workers and that they contribute to society alot more than sports players but sports players make alot more money than them because there is a higher supply of people that can be teachers while only a select few are good enough at their sport to compete at the highest level (where they get the huge salaries).

Tomer Shamay