Steve Jobs:

But the key thing is that if you're gonna make connections which are innovative, you've--to connect two experiences together, that you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does, or else you're going to make the same connections, and then you won't be innovative, and then nobody will give you an award.

So, what you gotta do is get different experiences than the normal course of events. And one of the funny things about being bright is everyone puts you on this path, you know, to go to high school, go to college... I've heard about some kid that's 14 on his way to Stanford, and that's great.

That's sort of out of the ordinary, but you might want to think about going to Paris and being a poet for a few years, you know. Or you might wanna go to a third world country. -I'd highly advise that – and see people and lepers with their hands falling off and all that stuff. It's very much so worth doing.

Steve Jobs:

But the key thing is that if you're gonna make connections which are innovative, you've--to connect two experiences together, that you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does, or else you're going to make the same connections, and then you won't be innovative, and then nobody will give you an award.

So, what you gotta do is get different experiences than the normal course of events. And one of the funny things about being bright is everyone puts you on this path, you know, to go to high school, go to college... I've heard about some kid that's 14 on his way to Stanford, and that's great.

That's sort of out of the ordinary, but you might want to think about going to Paris and being a poet for a few years, you know. Or you might wanna go to a third world country. -I'd highly advise that – and see people and lepers with their hands falling off and all that stuff. It's very much so worth doing.