According to the Mercury News, a key to understanding Steve Jobs, his hand-picked biographer Walter Isaacson said, can be found in the Apple (AAPL) co-founder's childhood in Mountain View.
Isaacson, whose book "Steve Jobs" goes on sale Monday, did an extended interview on the CBS news magazine show "60 Minutes," in which he said that from early childhood, Jobs understood himself as chosen and special.
The program, which aired Sunday night and is on the show's website, includes audio excerpts of Jobs talking with Isaacson during more than 40 interviews they did in creating the 630-page book. Their final session took place just weeks before Jobs succumbed to pancreatic cancer at his home in Palo Alto on Oct. 5.
"I was right here on the lawn," said Jobs, pointing out his boyhood home as he recalled when a neighbor girl found out he had been adopted. "She said, 'Does that mean your real parents didn't want you?' I remember running into the house crying. They said, 'No, you don't understand. We specifically picked you out.'"
At that moment, Jobs said he realized, "I wasn't abandoned. I was chosen. I was special."
That conviction that he had been selected, Isaacson said, stuck with Jobs his entire life….
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