Steve Jobs’s Nervousness Before His First TV Interview 46 Years Ago, Proves Even Geniuses Have to Start Somewhere

It’s easy to assume Steve Jobs — like any extremely successful person — was somehow made differently. That he possessed certain innate qualities. Talent. Perseverance. Creativity. Intelligence. Emotional intelligence. (OK, maybe not that one.)

It’s easy to assume that who he was inside, and what that allowed him to do, made all the difference.

Yet Steve Jobs wasn’t always Steve Jobs, visionary Apple co-founder. Nor was he always the commander of the product launch stage.

Here’s Jobs in 1978, getting ready to do his first-ever television interview. He’s a little twitchy. A lot chatty. Clearly anxious and unsure.

“I’m ready to throw up at any moment,” he says, joking–but also not.

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