Pretty soon afterwards he dropped out and hung out on
campus, walking around barefoot, experimenting with
sort of extreme diets,
bumming free meals from the Hare Krishna temple.
Eventually, he got fed up with being completely destitute,
came back to California, took a night shift job at Atari.
And that was very specific, because he wanted flexibility
and not too much responsibility.
And he began to study Eastern Mysticism, way more seriously.
It had just arrived on the shores of the West Coast in
this period.
He went on a mendicant's journey to
India in this point.
Months' long mendicant's journey to India, came back,
started to study seriously at the Los Altos Zen Center, and
began to spend an increasing amount of time with the All
One commune upstate.
So the point of this is that is a portrait of someone who
is seeking.
The classic example of someone young, early in their life,
trying to figure out what life's about, what they want
to do with their life.
A lot of us go through this stage, but Jobs being Jobs
couldn't just read Kerouac.
He had to actually go to India and spend three months,
because he's intense about everything he does.
But he's basically reflecting something that a lot of us
went through ourselves.
Trying to understand what are we doing here, what's the
meaning of life.
He was in a seeking mode.
But what's clear about that is this was certainly not someone
with a crystal-clear vision of I am passionate about starting
a technology company, and I'm going to find a way to do that
one way or the other.
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