Word: passions
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...worst thing to do is to make it easy. You need to be fighting for that idea as opposed to just having it accepted. That process of being misunderstood helps you figure out how to communicate it in a way that other people can hear. And you need the passion to follow the idea up. So the last thing I'd want to do is build an enterprise that just made it easy to have ideas. It needs that friction, but not so much that it gets smothered...
...have people look behind me to see whom I was running away from. But China's leaders have a long tradition of using sports as a spur to national pride. Consider the country's decades-long dominance of table tennis. This supremacy had little to do with a national passion for wooden paddles and plastic balls. China decided to develop star paddlers largely because the International Table Tennis Federation was, in 1953, one of the first sports organizations to drop ties with Taiwan in favor of the mainland. In 1959, Rong Guotuan made history as China's first world champion...
After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove...
...think the deeper point is that engineering is an inevitable expression of our inner drive to imagine and re-imagine. Our goal should be to remain wise enough to channel such passion in positive directions while always considering the broader implications...
...There's nothing inherently wrong with wealth, or a love of finance. "Selling out to the Man" is tragic, as President Faust implied, only if it means betraying a higher passion or delaying a quest to find one. The real tragedy here is that students often sell out by default; it's the choice for those who see real choice as too risky...