Leading Thoughts for June 18, 2026

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with:

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on success:

“‘People with very high expectations have very low resilience. Unfortunately, resilience matters in success,’ he later said. ‘Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character.’ And character, in his view, can only be the result of overcoming setbacks and adversity. To Jensen, the struggle to persevere in the face of bad, and often over-whelming, odds is simply what work is. It is why, whenever someone asks him for advice on how to achieve success, his answer has been consistent over the years: ‘I wish upon you ample doses of pain and suffering.’”

Source: The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim

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Brad Stulberg on rugged flexibility:

“The goal is not to be stable and therefore never change. Nor is the goal to sacrifice all sense of stability, passively surrendering yourself to the whims of life. Rather, the goal is to marry these qualities to cultivate what I call rugged flexibility. To be rugged is to be tough, determined, and durable. To be flexible is to consciously respond to altered circumstances or conditions, to adapt and bend easily without breaking. Put those together and the result is a gritty endurance, an anti-fragility that not only withstands change, but thrives in its midst.”

Source: Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You

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