'I Hope Suffering Happens To You': Billionaire Nvidia CEO Huang Tells Students Wishing For Success

Delivering a lecture at Stanford University, billionaire Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang touched upon the key ingredients to success - resilience, low expectation, tolerance to failure and suffering. To achieve greatness, one needs character and "character isn’t formed out of smart people, it’s formed out of people who suffered," he said.?

Be resilient & tolerate failure?

Resilience is a key trait that Huang believes greatly contributes to success. As the co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, with an estimated net worth of $77.6 billion, Huang shared tips from his personal journey of developing resilience during a talk at Stanford University.?

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He emphasised that individuals graduating from prestigious institutions often have high expectations from themselves, which can lead to low resilience when they encounter failure.?

This aligns with research findings from the book "Developing Mental Toughness" by Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk, which highlights mental toughness - defined as how effectively individuals deal with stress, pressure and challenge - as crucial for navigating stress and challenges.?

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Huang underscored the importance of resilience, stating, "Resilience matters in success. I don’t know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you."?

Have low expectations

Huang suggests that maintaining low expectations can better equip you to handle future challenges.?

Expecting smooth sailing may lead to get sidetracked when obstacles occur. While on the other hand, anticipating challenges allows you to be prepared.?

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Despite Nvidia's success, Huang remains wary of potential failure. He underscores the importance of continuous innovation for success.?

Simply put, one needs to constantly innovate in order to succeed. But to innovate you need to experiment, and if you don't have a tolerance for failure, you will never experiment.

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