I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

The parellels between Steve and I are sometimes uncanny. I hope to do him one better though, since I learned a lot of these lessons before I turned 30.

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says