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the episode. Welcome to Darren Daily on Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become

better every day. Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy. So Steve Jobs typically kept his

personal life private, but in 1995 he recorded an oral history for the Smithsonian. In this story,

Steve reveals the woman that changed his life forever. So this is what Steve said.

Oh, school was pretty hard for me at the beginning. My mother had taught me how to read

before I got to school. And so when I got there, I really just wanted to do two things. I wanted

to read books. So I loved reading books, and I wanted to go outside and chase butterflies and do

all things, you know, five-year-olds like to do. And I encountered the authority of a different

kind than I'd ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really, they almost got me.

They really almost, they came this close to really beating any curiosity out of me. By the time I

was in third grade, I'd had a good buddy of mine, Rick Ferrentino, and the only way we had fun was

to create mischief. And we used to do things like, well, I remember one time we traded everybody,

that there was a big bike rack where everybody put their bikes, maybe 100 bikes in this bike rack,

and we traded everybody our lock combinations for theirs on an individual basis, and then went out

one day and put everybody's lock and everybody else's bike, and it took them till about 10 o'clock

at night to get all the bikes unsorted, and stuff like that. We set off explosives and teachers'

desks and stuff, and it was pretty serious. We got kicked out of school a lot, and in fourth grade,

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