P1.Steve Jobs, the "Unconventional"!

While being remarkably self-confident and an explorer of possibilities unheard of before, Steve Jobs' genius might have been his fatal move. 


Avie Tevanian, Jobs' longstanding friend and chief technology officer at Apple, talks about how Jobs' love for the unconventional might be the reason behind his death. The celebrated technologist's self-belief led him to put off all conventional forms of treatment in the early stages after diagnosis, something he agreed to only after the cancer had spread. 


Jobs had instead been exploring alternative therapies."Steve was an unconventional person and when it came to treating his illness he was very happy to use non-traditional methods," says Mr. Tevanian."I think he truly thought that through some unconventional means he could cure himself."

"He was the kind of person that could convince himself of things that weren't necessarily true or necessarily easy, maybe easy is the better way to think of it.

"That always worked with him for designing products, where he could go to people and ask them to do something that they thought was impossible.

"But he would keep asking and say: 'You know, it's impossible but I still want you to try' - and because of his sheer will, they would actually make it happen, or make something like it happen."

The Apple boss died on October 5 2011, aged 56.

Source: BBC News