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One of my, I think, one of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations.
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And I mean that.
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Most of the Stanford graduates have very high expectations.
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And you deserve to have high expectations because you came from a great school.
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You were very successful.
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You're top of your class.
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Obviously, you were able to pay for tuition.
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And then you're graduating from one of the finest institutions on the planet.
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You're surrounded by other kids that are just incredible.
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You should have very, you naturally have very high expectations.
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People with very high expectations have very low resilience.
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And unfortunately, resilience matters in success.
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I don't know how to teach it to you except for I hope suffering happens to you.
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And I was fortunate that I grew up with my parents providing a condition for us to be successful on the one hand.
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But there were plenty of opportunities for setbacks and suffering.
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And to this day, I use the word, the phrase pain and suffering inside our company with great glee.
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And the reason, and I mean that.
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Boy, this is gonna cause a lot of pain and suffering.
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And I mean that in a happy way.
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Because you wanna train, you wanna refine the character of your company.
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You want greatness out of them.
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And greatness is not intelligence.
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Greatness comes from character.
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And character is informed out of smart people.
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It's formed out of people who suffered.
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And so that's it.
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And so if I could wish upon you, I don't know how to do it.
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For all of you Stanford students,
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I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.
