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Jensen Huang: "Greatness does not come from intelligence. Greatness comes from character, and character isn't isn't formed out of smart people: it's formed out of people who have suffered."

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Z Fellows2 years ago

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Career Geek 🤓 | Career Soft Skills2 years ago

I truly believe in this. Grit & resilience are the most important success factors in one's career.

Jeremy Stamper 🇺🇦2 years ago

Brb I’m going to press my face to a hot stove.

Vasu D Kapoor2 years ago

The suffering doesn’t end but Huang’s quote gives me hope.

Narasimha R N 🤗 AI - Disciple @692 years ago

I think Jensen oversimplifies the origins of greatness. While character development through adversity is significant, intelligence also plays a crucial role. Greatness often emerges from a complex interplay of factors, including intelligence, resilience, opportunity, and social context.

Brian Lamb2 years ago

Reflection builds character. Suffering has just been the best mechanism to inspire reflection. Soon there will be more options.

Manav | caerlower.eth2 years ago

This is the best line one could ever say.

Bruce Warila2 years ago

Everyone suffers.

Mark Miller2 years ago

battle scars. my dad served in Vietnam and still has the grit he learned there. senior devs and senior anythings are able to do what they do because they have battle scars.

Sanchit Waray2 years ago

If this guy meets Roy Keane @NoContextKeaneo the universe will explode

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People with very high expectations have low resilience. And unfortunately resilience matters for success. There is no way to learn resilience except for going through suffering and I hope that suffering happens to you. Greatness is not intelligence, greatness comes from character, and character is not formed out of smart people, it’s formed out of people who suffered. I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering! What a GOAT! 🙇‍♂️

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This is why smart people rarely build businesses Jensen Huang stood in front of a room of Stanford graduates and told them he hopes they suffer. He wasn't being cruel. He was being precise. His argument: people with very high expectations have very low resilience. And resilience, not intelligence, is what decides who actually makes it. A Stanford grad has spent their whole life as the smartest person in the room. They've rarely been tested by real failure. So when something finally breaks, they break with it. Then he said the line every founder should sit with: "Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who suffered." He would know. At nine, Huang was scrubbing toilets at a Kentucky boarding school his family hadn't realized was a reform school. As a teenager he bussed tables at Denny's. In 1993 he started NVIDIA in a Denny's booth, and nearly lost it more than once in the years that followed. The character was built decades before the valuation showed up. This is why he uses the words "pain and suffering" inside NVIDIA with what he calls great glee. He isn't trying to shield his best people from the hard part. He's trying to give it to them on purpose. Talent gets you into the room. The people who stay are the ones who were broken once and learned they could rebuild.

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Jensen Huang: "People with really high expectations have very low resilience." "I think one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations. And I mean that. Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations. And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school. You were very successful. You're top of your class. Obviously, you were able to pay for tuition. And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet. You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible. You naturally have very high expectations. People with very high expectations have very low resilience. And unfortunately, resilience matters in success. I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you. And I was fortunate that I grew up with my parents providing a condition for us to be successful on the one hand, but there were plenty of opportunities for setbacks and suffering. And to this day, I use the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee. And I mean that. Boy, this is going to cause a lot of pain and suffering. And I mean that in a happy way, because you want to train, you want to refine the character of your company. You want greatness out of them. And greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character, and character isn't formed out of smart people. It's formed out of people who suffered. And so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it. For all of you Stanford students, I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering."

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