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@_Zaraquin Its funny, and clear that you dont know what was realy going on in that game.
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@DireStraits77 This is the best version... and please notice the best drummer ever...(no shown...but just listen)
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This is why smart people rarely build businesses
Jensen Huang stood in front of a room of Stanford graduates and told them he hopes they suffer.
He wasn't being cruel. He was being precise.
His argument: people with very high expectations have very low resilience. And resilience, not intelligence, is what decides who actually makes it. A Stanford grad has spent their whole life as the smartest person in the room. They've rarely been tested by real failure. So when something finally breaks, they break with it.
Then he said the line every founder should sit with: "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."
He would know. At nine, Huang was scrubbing toilets at a Kentucky boarding school his family hadn't realized was a reform school. As a teenager he bussed tables at Denny's. In 1993 he started NVIDIA in a Denny's booth, and nearly lost it more than once in the years that followed. The character was built decades before the valuation showed up.
This is why he uses the words "pain and suffering" inside NVIDIA with what he calls great glee. He isn't trying to shield his best people from the hard part. He's trying to give it to them on purpose.
Talent gets you into the room. The people who stay are the ones who were broken once and learned they could rebuild.
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@Emotion78687 this song is from the 1977 album - Rumors -
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DO YOU KNOW THE CHINESE WOMAN
At last night’s dinner banquet, a Chinese woman from Hunan sat in the most prominent seat between two figures known to the entire world: to her left, Tim Cook, and to her right, Elon Musk.
Forty years ago, she was a poor rural girl who left school at the age of 15.
Her name is Zhou Qunfei
She lost her mother at five, and her father was injured in an accident while making explosives, leaving him blind with damaged hands. The family survived by making handmade baskets.
At fifteen, she left her village for Guangdong to work, joining a watch‑glass factory in Shenzhen. She worked on the production line during the day and studied at night school, earning certificates in accounting, computing, customs clearance, and driving.
After just three years, she rose from a simple worker to a factory manager.
But she later resigned after being sidelined in favor of the owners’ relatives.
She left with modest capital: 20,000 yuan and eight of her relatives.
They rented a small apartment that became both a factory and a home. She would go from factory to factory offering her services, then return at night to work until 3 a.m.
She continued like this for ten years.
Then came the first opportunity in 2003.
Motorola wanted to manufacture its iconic V3 phone with nearly impossible specifications: ultra‑thin, ultra‑clear glass with zero defects.
Every factory refused.
She accepted.
The mission succeeded, and the phone sold more than 100 million units worldwide. From there, **Lens Technology** was born.
Then came Apple.
When Steve Jobs wanted to build the first iPhone with a strengthened glass that had never been commercially produced, Apple’s engineers searched the world for a factory willing to take the challenge.
They found only Zhou Qunfei.
After months of joint work, she succeeded in producing the first iPhone screen, later becoming the largest supplier of glass for Apple devices—from iPhone to iPad, MacBook, and Apple Watch.
Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, and others followed, entrusting her with manufacturing automotive glass, smart displays, and even components for humanoid robots.
That is why she sat in the most prominent seat last night.
To her left, Tim Cook, whose Apple has relied on her factories for 18 years; to her right, Elon Musk, whose Tesla and Optimus robots depend on her technologies.
When asked about the secret of her success, she did not speak of luck, intelligence, or even hard work.
She simply said:
Dare to accept.
Then added:
The things others see as impossible… accept them.
The tasks everyone runs away from… accept them.
When you accept the challenge, you learn how to succeed in it.
And when you succeed, bigger challenges come to you.
Opportunities are not discovered by people… opportunities are the things others abandon, and you bend down to pick them up.
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Carpenters - Only Yesterday - 1975
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