{"id":169293,"date":"2021-02-03T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-weird-life-hacks-that-allowed-steve-jobs-to-build-apple\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:11:08","slug":"the-weird-life-hacks-that-allowed-steve-jobs-to-build-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-weird-life-hacks-that-allowed-steve-jobs-to-build-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"#The weird life hacks that allowed Steve Jobs to build Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The weird life hacks that allowed Steve Jobs to build App<\/a>le<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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An apple a day helped power Mac.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSteve [Jobs] really took care of himself,\u201d Naz Beheshti, the Apple co-founder\u2019s former executive assistant, told The Post. She once surprised Jobs with an oatmeal raisin cookie \u2014 \u201ca gourmet one from Whole Foods\u201d \u2014 with his lunch as a nice gesture. \u201cI found it later in his garbage,\u201d she said. \u201cMy healthy was Steve\u2019s garbage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead of desserts, the notoriously demanding Jobs required a steady stream of fruits and vegetables \u2014 so much so that they even inspired his tech company\u2019s uncommon name. \u201cHe loved avocados and apples,\u201d as well as unfussy sushi rolls, to power him through 10-hour days at Apple\u2019s Cupertino, California, headquarters, according to his former body woman. \u201cI got him avocado rolls almost every day. He kept it vegetarian and super light.\u201d And yes, he skipped the soy sauce, ginger and wasabi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been nearly a decade since Steve Jobs\u2019 death at age 56 from a rare form of pancreatic cancer, but according to 43-year-old Beheshti, author of the new book, \u201cPause. Breathe. Choose: Become the CEO of Your Well-Being<\/a>\u201d (New World Library), tech CEOs and start-up bros are still eager to emulate his unconventional habits.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is their guru,\u201d said Beheshti, who assisted Jobs for about a year in 2000 after graduating from college, and who now owns her own consulting firm where she coaches clients on integrating wellness practices \u2014 think mindfulness and yoga-inspired breathing \u2014 into their businesses from her Lower East Side apartment. <\/p>\n

The Pixar mastermind and CEO was known to explore alt-lifestyles \u2014 Jobs travel<\/a>ed to India to learn from Buddhist monks \u2014 and would allegedly fast for days on end, long before forest bathing and biohacking were in vogue. \u201cSteve knew he needed to take care of himself to sustain the energy and focus he needed for Apple to reach the heights that it did,\u201d Beheshti said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So what can innovators aspiring to Apple-level success, or 9-to-5ers confined to their living rooms, learn from the high priest of personal computing?\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Forbes<\/a>, Jobs believed his vegetarian ways would eliminate the need for showers, earning him the night shift in his Atari days, so co-workers were spared the stink.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, his other health hacks were less peculiar, including hiring a private trainer to work him out three days a week.<\/p>\n

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Naz Beheshti assisted Steve Jobs for about a year in 2000 after graduating from college now owns her own consulting firm.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cHe had a personal gym in Palo Alto, and would sometimes go on runs,\u201d said Beheshti. <\/p>\n

And when he wasn\u2019t with a trainer, Jobs stretched his legs during the workday.<\/p>\n

Jobs, who was developing the iPod in the year that Beheshti worked under him, would eschew his office or conference rooms for one-on-one meetings on-the-go. \u201cHe preferred to walk and talk, or meet in nature and have a picnic,\u201d said Beheshti, who would schedule meetings for Jobs at \u201cThe Dish,\u201d a nature trail surrounding a massive radio antennae on Stanford University\u2019s campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beheshti writes that walking \u201cis playful by nature [and will] get the creative juices flowing,\u201d and points to research that walking meetings increase \u201ccreative thinking and productivity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Naz Beheshti said she would schedule meetings for Steve Jobs at \u201cThe Dish,\u201d a nature trail surrounding a massive radio antennae on Stanford University\u2019s campus.\u00a0<\/figcaption>
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A minutes-keeping hack made possible by her old boss: Use the voice memo feature on your phone to record your meeting, so you don\u2019t lose track of decisions and ideas. Walking barefoot \u2014 as was preferred<\/a> by the tech titan, according to Walter Isaacson\u2019s biography of him \u2014 is optional. <\/p>\n

According to Beheshti, meditation was another key to Jobs\u2019 success. \u201cHe meditated every morning for 15 minutes,\u201d she said, calling the daily practice \u201chuge for him.\u201d Another far-out practice of the tech leader: psychedelics. According to a memoir by his ex Chrisann Brennan, \u201cSteve had tried to get me to primal scream \u2018Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy\u2019 when we had taken LSD.\u201d <\/p>\n

Still, his daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, described her dad as hypercritical while he built the company that would take up the lion\u2019s share of his attention. <\/p>\n

But Jobs himself even made sure to turn off his own devices. <\/p>\n

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According to Naz Beheshti, Steve Jobs only ever ate avocado rolls for lunch and preferred \u201cwalking meetings.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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\u201cMe, or a lot of other people, would be trying to reach him at all times,\u201d said Beheshti, who knew if Jobs\u2019 phone was off, he was playing with his \u201ctoys\u201d or prototypes for upcoming products with Apple\u2019s then head of design Jony Ive.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy turning off his phone, he gets fully in the present moment, focused and engaged while enjoying his playtime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you want to go full-on Jobs, consider his uniform of Levi\u2019s jeans, a black Issey Miyake mock turtleneck \u2014 fabric from his personal shirts were embedded in iPhones and sold at a cool $6,000 in 2019 \u2014 and New Balance sneakers. \u201cThe outfit was about time efficiency,\u201d said Beheshti, noting he didn\u2019t have to think about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the hoodie is the big thing in tech, since Zuckerberg,\u201d said Beheshti. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t a hoodie person, but I think Steve was onto something with not wasting time, and sticking to a signature look.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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