Nvidia founder tells Stanford students their high expectations is a hindrance
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#5There is some truth in this - We do a poor job of preparing youth for making choices in adulthood, and understanding the consequences of those choices.
I think we need to do better at offering youth (during adolescence) what could functionally be 'adulthood with training wheels'
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#6It's more about resilience and what sets the stage for it.
He argues resilience is created through suffering (which plays into the idea that if you want to know who will be a good founder, ask about their childhood).
It makes me curious though about the direction of the causality - how much is resilience actually about temperament and genetics vs. the environmental experience of suffering. Why do some people become resilient from suffering and others become unable to succeed in life. Maybe suffering just reveals the types of people that are already resilient?
My hypothesis is there's some baseline and people have different predispositions based on their personality, but that resilience can also be improved by learning how to handle difficult situations better (and what kinds of thought patterns you allow yourself to have) - a kind of emotional observation/regulation/understanding. The opposite of what current identity politics/seeing yourself as a perpetual victim of 'trauma' plays into (imo this makes people a lot less resilient).
It's possible that's something you can only really develop through suffering (maybe this is Jensen's point), but it might also be able to be something that can be learned even without suffering - though people may have less reason to truly internalize it until it's tested.
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#7>“One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations.”
This is important. We are limitless potential. To embody that, is to understand that life is uncertain. It's great to set goals. But don't take them too seriously. Or you will get lost in the concept.
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Have you stopped to think why this bothers you?
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#9"I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering" - funny, my ex wife said the same!
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#10Reminds me obliquely of what Jack Cowin told an MBA class, as quoted in Rafael Badziag's _The Billion Dollar Secret_:
"You guys have a big disadvantage over what I had. When I finished university, I got a job offer of $6,000 a year, and you're going to get a job offer of $150,000. You're going to develop a lifestyle. You're going to join the golf club, you're going to have private school for your kids. You're going to buy a big mortagage. You are going to become a prisoner of that lifestyle. When I made the decision I was going to go into business, I had everything to gain, not much to lose."