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What is the thing you are best at that nobody watching can see?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 5 Arts and letters 7 Politics and public life 5 Business and finance 1 Technology 2 Sport 6
Read by age Any age Before thirty 2 In their thirties 3 In their forties 3 In their fifties 7 In their sixties 4 Seventy and beyond 3
Jensen Huang Co-founder, president and chief executive of NVIDIA
Of all of the things that I value most about my abilities, intelligence is not top of that list. My ability to endure pain and suffering, my ability to work on something for a very, very long period of time, my ability to handle setbacks and see the opportunity just around the corner I consider to be my superpowers, and I hope they're yours.
Recorded California Institute of Technology 130th Annual Commencement, YouTube (recording of the Caltech commencement address), 14 June 2024 source ↗
Fei-Fei Li Professor of computer science at Stanford University; creator of ImageNet
Being a scientist is about resilience because science is exploring the unknown, just as an immigrant is exploring the unknown. In both, you are on an uncertain journey and you have to find your own North Star.
Recorded Stanford HAI interview marking publication of The Worlds I See, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI) source ↗

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