A short transcript excerpt of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivering a speech about career expectations, arguing that passion and happiness alone are insufficient for greatness; struggle, perseverance, and suffering are necessary parts of achieving significant accomplishments. He reframes happiness versus love for work and explicitly wishes listeners 'plenty of pain and suffering' as a path to greatness.
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There's a phrase that said you should choose your career based on your passion. And usually people connect passion with happiness. Nothing there is wrong, but there's something missing. And the reason for that is because when you want to build something great, it's not easy to do. And when you're doing something that's not easy to do, you're not always enjoying it. I don't love every day of my job. I don't think every day brings me joy, nor does joy have to be the definition of a good day. And every day, I'm not happy every year, I'm not happy about the company, but I love the company every single second. And so I think that what people misunderstand is somehow the best jobs are the one that brings you happiness all the time. I don't think that that's right. You have to suffer, you have to struggle, you have to endeavor. You have to do those hard things and work through it in order to really appreciate what you've done. And there are no such thing that are great that was easy to do. And so I would say, therefore, I. I wish upon you greatness, which, by my way of saying it, I wish upon you plenty of pain and suffering. And so.