I run tax law classes ONLINE and I invariably run a clip of
Steve Jobs video where he recounts his experince as a 12 year old picking up
the phone and straightaway dialling the number of Bill Hewlett the co-founder
of Hewlett-Packard,and he recalls:
''“His number was still in
the phone book, and he answered the phone himself,” Jobs recalled.
[Jobs introduced himself]:
“Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school, and I want
to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I
could have.”
Hewlett laughed—and then he
did something extraordinary. He not only gave Jobs the spare parts but also
offered him a summer job at HP, working on the assembly line.
“I was in heaven,” Jobs said.
“Most people never pick up
the phone and call. Most people never ask,” Jobs said. “And that's what
separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream
about them.”
Its a huge tragedy.People say
they dont ask because seniors dont tell or ridicule.But that should not deter
you.Keep on knocking -one day the right door will open-and life will change.
For whatever I am worth,I am
also sitting behind one of those doors-three decades of learning and growth in
tax law-in career and mind management -to give away-waiting for my kind of
learner.Waiting to open that door.Waiting for that knock.
You have the speed.But I know
the way.
So don't fear-just ask.Just
knock the door.
