Oct 10, 2012
"In my experience, students have been taught to place way too much importance on having the courage to follow their passions and change the world, and not nearly enough importance on having the persistence to first build the needed ability to both find concrete projects that matter and accomplish them. “Think different,” they’re told, without also being told about the decades it took Steve Jobs to build the experience — often through failure — needed to transform Apple into the innovative company it became in the last two decades."