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I've never seen a successful person in in a job or a career get there without
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>> You've got four kids. >> Yes. >> They come to you, they say, "Dad,
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listen. AI, robotics, give me some advice for my future. What should I be doing?"
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>> Work hard. You're going to be fine. One of the pieces of advice I give to young
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people is don't plan. I wound up where I am today having not planned a thing.
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When I was a vessant banker, I wasn't dreaming of becoming a CEO, etc. What I
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find is that people who have too much of a career plan, who have too much clarity
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about what they're doing, they they lose their curiosity. And human beings look
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for positive signal, right? Whether you like it or not. Anytime someone agrees with you, makes you feel a little bit
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better, anytime you get signal that goes against your preconceived notions, either you ignore it or you're like,
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"All right, I'm going to I'm going to take this on." It's unpleasant. With
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career planning, what I find is people who have too clear uh career plan, they're looking for signals that feed
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into their career plan. I'm going to be a vice president by this much. I'm going
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to make X money by this much. And they're not looking around. They're not
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being curious. They're not looking for signal that can change, you know, their
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life. And so what I tell some folks is like before you go out and try to change a world, let the world change you first.
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If you're like this, you got blinders cuz I'm going here. You're not going to
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take all the stimulus coming in from the world. So the one constant I see is people who are good are good. I've never
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seen a successful person in in a job or career get there without working hard. And my guess is, I don't
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know about you, you kind of wound up where you're wound up kind of by accident. And people are like, well, you
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got lucky. I got very lucky to be here. Like I had so many kind of moments and and some would say I took
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advantage of that luck, but to some extent I was able to take advantage of that luck because I was Open.