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Hello everyone, today I am writing about the very interesting and fascinating anecdotes about Steve Jobs. It's a part 1 of this series. 

                                        Steve Jobs once said, " I really just wanted to do two things. I wanted to read books because I love reading books and I wanted to go outside and chase butterflies."

What he didn't want to do was follow instructions. He struggled with the structure of the school day and soon was bored with being in a class. He felt different from his classmates. 

                                                                          Talking about his childhood, he proved to be a curious child and a challenging one to his parents. He put a hairpin into an electrical outlet, winning a trip to the emergency room for a burned hand. He got into ant poison, requiring yet another trip to the hospital to have his stomach pumped.

 His father taught him how to use a hammer and gave him a set of smaller tools. Over the years, Jobs remembered, his dad "spent a lot of time with me... teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together."

                                                His father's careful craftsmanship and commitment to the finest details made a deep impression. He "was a sort of genius with his hands. He can fix anything and make it work and take any mechanical thing apart and get it back together," Jobs told an interviewer in 1985.

 His parents thought he was very special. However, some of his teachers saw him more as trouble-maker than as a special kid. He was sent home two to three times for his misbehaviour. But his father defended him, telling teachers, " If you can't keep him interested, it's your fault."

                                                            At thirteen, Jobs had stopped going to the Lutheran church after confronting the church pastor with a magazine story about children starving in Africa. " Does God know about this and what's going to happen to those children?" he asked the pastor. When the pastor acknowledged that "yes, God knows about that," Jobs decided that he couldn't worship such a God.

                                                    In the 1970s, Jobs started experimenting. He grew his hair long. He began smoking marijuana. At the same time, his interests began to broaden beyond science, maths and electronics. " I discovered Shakespeare. I started taking creative-writing classes," he said.

                                                    In Reed College, Jobs signed up for a dance class, mostly to meet girls. He and a new friend pursued their own reading list of books about Zen Buddhism, spirituality, enlightenment, and consciousness-raising. They practised meditation and read Diet for a Small Planet. Both became committed vegetarians. 

 He had impressed the dean of students with his "very inquiring minds", and the dean tacitly allowed him to hang around and attend classes. Among other things, he dropped into a calligraphy class.

                                                        Jobs flew to New Delhi, where he almost immediately came down with dysentery, running a high fever and dropping weight. When he felt better, he ventured north and happened on a religious festival. He apparently stood out in the crowd. While he was eating, the holy man grabbed Job's arms and led him up a mountain trail to an area with a well and a small pond. There, the holy man dunked Job's head in water, pulled out a razor, and shaved his head, saying it was for the young man's health. 

References : 

1. Steve Jobs, The man who thought different.

2. Google Images.