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Most people know Steve Jobs as the brilliant, turtleneck-wearing visionary who co-founded Apple and revolutionized the smartphone industry.
But history usually glosses over the strangest part of his story.
Back in his early days, long before he changed the world, he was completely obsessed with extreme, restrictive diets. In fact, he would spend weeks eating absolutely nothing but apples or carrots—sometimes consuming so many carrots that his skin visibly turned a bright, vibrant shade of orange. He genuinely believed these strict fruitarian habits eliminated his body odor, leading him to completely stop showering while working night shifts at Atari, which forced his managers to isolate him from his coworkers.
If he hadn't possessed that exact level of uncompromising, borderline fanatical intensity, the minimalist aesthetics and hyper-focused design philosophy of the Apple products we use today might never have happened the way they did.
It just goes to show that the giants of history are often far more complex—and human—than our textbooks let on.
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