Quote of the Day: Steve Jobs on Success

There is a specific kind of relief that arrives when you stop treating a bad day as a verdict and start treating it as information. The moment you do, your shoulders drop, your breathing steadies, and you realize you still have choices. That’s the doorway Steve Jobs points to when he says, “Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith”

The brick is rarely polite. It’s the sudden email, the diagnosis, the betrayal, the project that collapses after months of effort. Jobs’ metaphor matters because it doesn’t romanticize hardship, it acknowledges the jolt, the sting, the disorientation. But then it offers a practice: keep faith. Not as wishful thinking, but as a disciplined commitment to your next best move.

Faith, applied, looks like this: separate the impact from the identity. You got hit; you are not broken. Ask two questions immediately, What is still in my control? What is the smallest action that improves my position by 1%? That might mean sending the hard message, taking the walk that clears your head, rebuilding the plan with fewer assumptions, or asking for help without apology. This is resilience in its most usable form: staying engaged with reality without surrendering your agency.

Steve Jobs earned the right to say this through building Apple into a defining force in personal technology, then returning to lead its reinvention, turning setbacks into a platform for innovation and focus. His legacy is a case study in leadership under pressure.

Today, write down the “brick” you’re carrying in one honest sentence, then choose one concrete step you can complete in the next 20 minutes, one call, one draft, one cleanup, one application. Let that small act be your proof that faith still lives in you, and may your next step meet you with strength.