Time & hindsight

What is the best advice you have ever received?

28 answers answered between 1976 and 2026 one of 5 in 73 Questions

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Tony Fadell Engineer and designer; led the iPod and iPhone teams at Apple, founder of Nest Labs
Elliot, he has such passion for what it was we were doing that he instilled that passion in me. He was like, “Just go for it. Make it happen.” And I would give him some wild idea, and he’d say, “Go try it.” It was that next set of just knocking down the fear of failure. Just go try anything.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Palo Alto, California, 5 February 2016 source ↗
Lisa Su Chair and chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices
Run toward the hardest problems. At the time, I didn’t fully understand what that meant.  But over time, I realized this was the best advice I ever received. Hard problems teach you what you're capable of.  Fast forward a bit … 12 years ago, I got a chance to put that lesson to the test. I had the opportunity to become CEO of AMD. AMD had enormous potential, but the company had been through some tough years. Some of my mentors thought taking the job was risky. But for me, this was my dream job. This was what I’d been training for all those years. The opportunity to work at the bleeding edge of technology on problems that really mattered. The first thing we had to figure out was what we wante
Recorded MIT OneMIT Commencement, MIT News, 28 May 2026 source ↗

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