Jeetu Patel: belief

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…Do you have a favorite life motto that you often come back to and work your own life? You already shared a couple, but is there anything else or you want to double down on one you've already shared? Stamina trumps intellect. I feel like it's very important to have smart people, but you can become smart if you have curiosity and hunger and staying power and persistence. And so I think that trait of learning to learn and constantly being hungry and having the stamina and persistence is far more important than the absolute measure of intellect that you might have, because that is very, very trainable and learnable over time and improvable over time. But hunger is very, it's not teachable is what I've found. I 100% agree with that. Interestingly, when you watch AI work, it's just like, partly the reason it's so good is it just keeps trying. It's just like, "Okay, this didn't work. Let keep going. What else can we just keep trying? Just give me half an hour, I'll figure this out. Okay, last question. So when you were younger, you worked at Sizzler Steakhouse making $4 an hour is what I read.…

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