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⬆️ Expectation - ⬇️ Resilience

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I think one of my greatest advantages is that I have very low expectations and and I mean that

Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations and you deserve to have 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 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 should have very 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

I was fortunate that I grew up with it with 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 and to to this day

I use the word the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee and the reason 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 the 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

So if I could wish upon you I don't know how to do it for all of you Stanford students I I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.

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