In this time of mourning over the passing of Steve Jobs it is important to understand what made him such and outstanding individual. And although it is an inconvenient truth to some people, his success was due to using LSD. That is what Apple’s trademark phrase “Think Differently” is referring to.
In his own words, Jobs said that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” This is what Steve Jobs himself believed was his advantage over Microsoft Windows, saying of Bill Gates, “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
Although it is generally good to teach our children to “say no to drugs” not all drugs are the same. Kids should definitely say no to drugs like cigarettes, excessive alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamine. But when it come to the psychedelic drugs like marijuana, mescalin, and LSD one has to appreciate that when used properly these drugs can have a profound and permanent positive effect transforming the individual in a way that allows someone to “Think Differently” and be the forefront of computer development like Steve Jobs was.
So when you sit down in front of your Mac computer, your iPod, iPad, iPhone, and listen to you music on iTunes, think of Steve Jobs and wonder where the world would be today if not for the people who “Think Differently” that create all this wonderful technology we enjoy.
The only people that advocate the recreational use of drugs are other addicts.
They just cannot face life without them. A chemical form of cowardice.
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What a load of bollocks.
Then have the drug users stop.
Totally. No drugs forever.
That won’t happen because they will first whine why should they and then if puched they cannot because they have become enslaved to the drug.
Lack of control and cowardice. The real world is too real for them.
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Or maybe the whole thing about Steve Jobs being one of the most successful people in recent history has been falsified to promote the drug addicts agenda? For most people who use LSD, weed, alcohol etc. it’s for non-productive purposes. But for intelligent people like Steve Jobs and Carl Segan, LSD was very useful.
You don’t know everything, and people have the right to choose what they do with themselves, so long as it doesn’t hurt themselves or others. So deal with it! Your little bubble of naivety isn’t perfect, and neither is mine, but you are wrong, and I’m not right.
2/10 troll. Try again.
actually, you all need an education. LSD WAS used by a number of engineers and scientists as a means to look at, to them at the time, fairly insoluble problems in their fields. Whether or not they received any special insight or not has not been published to my knowledge. Their have been a number of “evangelists” of the LSD experience that felt that the experience did indeed benefit them, much as a religious experience has done for others, and have “spread the faith”, not as a recreational drug, Cursor, but as a means to get it touch with some other aspect of humanity, whatever that may be. It is also well known that LSD, more than any other form of therapy or drug, had helped, under the control of a psychiatrist, with alcoholism. It has also been useful for depression in some individuals. Having experienced LSD on several occasions, I cannot say that I received any special insights, but I was looking more for enlightenment than problem solving. Seeing the responses to so many of the topics here, I can say with assurance that numerous individuals that post here need to take LSD to kill that bug up their asses…
So did the CIA great track record. I’d rather have a good blowjob.
“Alcoholism” was a term dreamed up to make it sound like people have a disease and not a mental illness related to compulsive behaviour.
Before then it was called Dipsomania.
Before then it was called being a drunk.
But like all addicts, they don’t like to be called names that remind them they are doing something aberrant.
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Dude, wtf? My first response to your BS was pretty polite, but not this time: you can just shut the hell up! I am not a drug addict, I am not an alcoholic, I am an occasional user of both alcohol, and weed, AND SO F***ING WHAT? Get over your self-righteous BS you ass.
You may feel better about yourself inventing ways that you are just ever so much better than other people, and that’s fine, just keep it to yourself.
getintouch,
I was aware of that too. When Timothy Leary invented LSD, he thought he was inventing a psychotropic that would help people. I think he believed that to the end.
I know of one person who was deeply hurt by LSD. She took it ONCE at a concert which caused her to have frequent short hallucinations ever sense. This prevented her from driving a car and all kinds of jobs. That was years ago. I don’t I know how she is now.
Yes, Purple Oslie, Orange Sunshine broadens the mind allowing one escape leftist dronehood and embrace common sense solutions as advanced by the Tea Party and candidate Herman Cain.
Its wonderful thinking outside of the box of statist tyranny and politically correct straight jacket they imprison all who dare dream of the day the progressive plantation is no more.
“I’m free and freedom tastes of reality”-The Who
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uRD_gIoVOmY
Speaking of flashbacks, I don’t think you’ll be getting a refund from SarahPAC.
Well, use of illicit narcotics could certainly explain your personal politics.
And the format still sucks.
>Whether or not they received any special insight or not has not been published to my knowledge.
You didn’t read this part?
>In his own words, Jobs said that taking LSD was “one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life.” This is what Steve Jobs himself believed was his advantage over Microsoft Windows, saying of Bill Gates, “He’d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.”
Taking LSD could be a life altering experience. Some people thought it made them better. A few had flash backs they loathed so much they killed themselves.
You role the dice and take what the fates hand out.
This is the same old argument that has been reenacted over and over again.
Xyz (you fill in the name) used to take drugs, therefore drugs helped him to do the things that he did.
The same thing has been said for Bob Marley and countless others.
So what:s the message? take drugs and you can accomplish great things?
It takes an insane amount of concentration, dedication, work, thinking and sleepless nights to put together the great things that they did.
To imply that they did it by taking drugs is pure nonsense.
The reality is: They were able to achieve great things *despite* the fact that they were taking drugs.
Please.
@peppeddu this is a perfect example of an outside observers view of something that you have 0 idea about. For anyone that has let themselves actually get away and “trip” they understand you are talking out of your ass. Citing one person as bob marley , you obviously don’t know the powers of psychedelics as you view it as one of those illegal drugs. I call LSD more of an experience than a drug. Once again only the few that have dropped out can understand why Steve jobs experience opened his mind to creating all that we know he did. Let a credible source correct your nonsense.
It takes an insane amount of concentration, dedication, work, thinking and sleepless nights to put together the great things that they did.
Insanity or realization of it was directly from LSD. Concentration and dedication was helped by the LSD experience .. Work, thinking and
sleepless nights are not just for entrepreneurs so that point is invalid.
To imply that they did it by taking drugs is pure nonsense.
This is where you have no place to try to inform readers of this post…
To imply someone being successful from heroin and crack is nonsense.. But realizing the magnitude of LSD and it’s effects on the mind would and will help the user if they use it right. He obviously had the capacity to handle the trip but not only handled it he used it to jumpstart his career.
The reality is that they were able to achieve great things *With help* from the Fact they used LSD. Go be your own man experience religion for yourself and stop following the herd that thinks all drugs are bad and equal.
The reality is: They were able to achieve great things *despite* the fact that they were taking drugs.
I have done it twice, once a very weak dose, then once again, which was the real deal. it changed my life, permanently. All in all, in small positive ways. People that have done it totally get it, those who don’t, won’t. I hink eventually, it will be proven that for whatever reason, it establishes new pathways in your brain. I experienced synesthesia, intensity changes in color, hyper sensitive hearing, visions, the whole ball of wax. I think that the set and setting are crucial. If you are in a bad state of mind with people or in an area you do not trust, it will be a bad experience. I was in Harbin Resort in NoCal, and it was a seminal life experience.
It’s “Think Different”…and that makes all the difference.
I don’t by this bull and find this post a show of disrespect to the great progressive, gay loving, forward thinking liberal that is Steve Jobs.
Not surprising that conservatives fry their brain cells with acid in the hopes of being rational when in fact it makes them more hateful, irrational, frightened little sheep.
Congratulations on having the most hateful and irrational comment on this article today! Yay for you!!!!
As extra credit, it also gets an award for it being nearly identical to every other regurgitated sheepish comment you post here!
Dallas,
Your “gay loving” phrase bugs me. One needn’t love gays in order to believe they deserve equal rights. It’s called being a good American.
I am outspoken about gay rights myself and get accused of loving or even being gay. I don’t really care but this totally misses the point. Good Americans believe in equal rights for all Americans — love ‘em or not.
Just what exactly did the LSD do for Jobs? Did it convince him that everything he was did was Insanely Great(tm) and Magical(tm)? Or was he that much of an egomaniac before he left for asia?
Some time in the future there will hopefully be a renewed appreciation for LSD and the fact that it is really like no other drug. It has amazing potential.
It is a great pity that the establishment came down so heavily on it.
Drugs, outside of the use as medicine, should always be “come down” upon.
They are not toys for your entertainment.
They trigger natural endorphins that your body depends on for survival, Over stimulated the areas of the brain that trigger and release them do not function right when you need them.
So you are not only fucked up, you are fucking yourself later on down the road.
Give a monkey a brain…
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Spot on!
Spare us your flawed judgements, and please don’t talk about things you know nothing about. Natural endorphins bwahah.
Blaming a symptom instead of the cause.
Hey Cursor_? Pull your head in.
You don’t know what you’re talking about, clearly – but you make a lot of noise.
I agree.
How did that work for his pancreas
I think the HIV is what killed him.
Uh, did you really just crack not only a joke about HIV, but also on a great person who recently died? That’s in really bad taste.
LSD, DMT, and similar psychoactive drugs are beneficial when used properly, but then Fundamentalist Christians and the National Security State demonized it and its users to the detriment of a better world.
Selective reasoning and results handpicking keep people believing the wrong stuff. Drugs are all good. No one has died from them.
Selective reasoning and results handpicking keep people believing the wrong stuff. Drugs are all bad. No one has benefited from them.
Ironical ain’t it?
I really like it when drunks get down on drug users and the only difference is the legality of the substance used.
I know two people whose lives have be ruined by LSD. One hung himself while on LSD, the other now hears voices, has delusions and can’t work and probably never will be able to. And even though this person got lots of support and has tried all sorts of medicine, not much has helped.
I hope doctors and scientist can figure this all out, and soon.
I know about 10 people personally who’s life got transformed for the better by psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms. People got cured of their OCD, depressions (even when medicine didn’t help them), paranoia.
It’s a double-edged sword. A tool. You can’t blame the hammer for the idiot who smashed his face with it.
I can fully support that claim. I took psilicybin mushrooms in my late twenties at a weekend hangout at my best friend’s house. I never did any drugs before besides alcohol and cigarettes. The trip took about 8 hours and was one of the most stunning and beautiful experiences I had up to that day (I rank it right after the first kiss with my first girl friend:). In the following two weeks the personal insights I had gained on that night completely transformed my life. I was working with the police at the time and realized that up until that night I was a total arrogant and selfish prick that mindlessly repeated (and believed) anything my superiors threw at me. The downside was that I suddenly realized that most of my fellow officers and friends still were the same kind of prick I used to be and I just couldn’t stand them anymore. So it took me three more month until I finally quit the police force and enrolled at university. Now I’m a security advisor at a european embassy. A job I would have never dared to dream of back when I was patrolling the streets. I also would have never met my wife (and children) if I stayed the person I was before. So looking back, I owe everything I achieved to this one psylocibin experiment. Of course I would never tell that to my wife and kids (because it sounds insane) but it’s the truth. It changed my life completely.
However, for my two best friends who talked me into this weekend trip, nothing changed at all. So I guess, it’s different for everyone.
Hey man, thanks for sharing!
If LSD was responsible for the phrase that made every English teacher scream (and not in a good way), it may have also been responsible for the phrases “It’s more cheesier,” “Got milk,” and “…the world in which we live in” too.
“one has to appreciate that when used.. these drugs can” cause pancreatic cancer.
“one has to appreciate that when used…” your keyboard can make you look like an ass.
the thing is, those meds are wrought for abuse,,, getting them “properly used” is an elusive reality because of their addictive properties..
Jobs simply made good sense.
Dewy @ Brochure Printing, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. The psychedelic substance LSD has NO addictive properties what-so-ever.
Fool.