Quote.1 - Jobs
"Stay hungry, stay foolish."
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1. Introduction
Salutations cosmonauts!
Welcome to our first edition of “Quote.#”.
This is a place for us to be thoughtful about some of the sentences that great minds from the past have shared.
It only felt right to start with Steve Jobs and his famous quote…
This is what I wrote about it in the introduction of The Orange Book of Marketing:
Staying hungry regards maintaining with yourself a non-negotiable condition of curiosity, ambition and thirst for knowledge, mystery and life. Staying hungry doesn’t necessarily regard dreaming, wanting and wishing for more and more until your belly can’t even handle that enormous quantity you got of whatever you wanted to get; staying hungry can sometimes be the same thing you already have but just a little different, not necessarily better or bigger, but different, with a different colour, a different shape, a different flavour, a different angle, made with another perspective, by other eyes, by other motives, by other hands, or even, your own bare hands.
To be curious about life is the same thing as naively seeing it as a box with infinite Lego pieces in front of you, ready to be played with, assembled in a trillionaire amount of ways. To not be curious about life is the same as handpicking some of the Lego pieces and excluding them from the box because you don’t understand their shape, they don’t fit your purpose, or the colours aren’t interesting; it is a profoundly simple question of math where the fewer pieces you have, the smaller will be the lego castle you will be able to build.
Staying foolish is the true ability of all great creators, for true naivety can only come from a heart that cultivates a pure vision of hope, a vision that all of us are born with, a vision that is prosperous in children, and a vision that fades as we grow old and get disappointed by life. To stay foolish is not necessarily to believe that everything happens for a reason but maybe, and only maybe, that a reason is enough to make everything happen. To trust in others is to trust in yourself, as true naivety is simple and innocent, like a handwritten note that says: “you got this!”
1.1 Staying hungry?
Why fasting is important.
People seem to have forgotten this, but intermittent fasting is something humanity did much before fast food even existed. Nowadays, people refrain from eating due to physical diets or due to a pursuit of a perfect body that is worthy of the cover of a fashion magazine.