Apple Products Don’t Have a Shutdown Button
No ‘Shutdown’ !!
OMG-Facts explain Steven Jobs was afraid of death. The concept of total cessation frightened him. He felt the experiences we encounter in this life raise us to another level of attained knowledge. And he reflected this belief in his products’ designs. Apple products don’t have a shutdown button.
I remember when I first purchased an 80-GB IPOD classic. My only frustration was it didn’t have a shutdown button. As soon as something clicked or touched its wheel center button, it came ‘back to life’. And that surely meant I had to continuously recharge it to keep it ‘alive’.
iPod Classic
Lessons Learned
Despite my frustration, I derive one lesson from this. Each one of us needs some form of ‘recharge’ every once in a while. We engage ourselves in daily routines and forget to include some ‘hibernation’ time in our event calendar. And no I’m not only referring to physical rest or sleep.
I’m more interested in time when we isolate ourselves from the mental stresses of daily living – a time when we ‘recharge’ ourselves to handle corporate politics, worldly news, personal and family matters. I’m also referring to a time when we disconnect ourselves from our social networking ‘obligations’ in Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or others and when we keep the Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, or any mobile gadget away for a while. We personally need to conserve our mental energy resources and unless we do, our ‘batteries’ run out and when they do, there’s no ‘reboot’. There’s no escape to it – unlike our tech gadgets, we do have a ‘shutdown’ button.
Finally, it is remarkable how a person’s work mirrors his/her attitude. You do not need to know Steve Jobs personally. You understand the type of person he was simply by using the products he designed. And given he was a hard-working, highly detailed, innovative, and creative genius, his products reflected similar traits.
This should also be true for each one of us. If it isn’t, then look at the surrounding environment and ask yourself if you are doing what you value most.