Motivational Thought-2

You will prevail

This is the quote used by Google CEO Sundar Pichai in his speech in the Dear Class of 2020, a virtual commencement celebration bringing together inspirational leaders and artists to celebrate graduates, their families, and their communities. The speech was such an inspiring one about how he followed his passion in technology without succumbing to any peer pressures.

He did not have the resources like a computer to learn till he reached America.

He started from humble beginning without anticipating the future.He followed his heart and passion.He was truthful in his works and dedication.The cost of flight ticket to US had costed him almost his dad’s a year salary.

Here is the quote said by him in his speech

So,take the time to find the thing

that excites you more than anything else in the world,

not the thing your parents want you to do,

or the thing that all your friends are doing,

or that society expects of you.

-Sundar Pichai Google CEO

Its time to decide are we doing the job,course or studies that really excites us?

Right from now 10 years down the years what we would be doing?

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Here is the transcription of his speech

Hello, everyone. And congratulations to the Class of 2020.

As well as your parents, your teachers,

and everyone who helped you get to this day.

I never imagined I’d be giving a commencement speech

with no live audience from my backyard,

but it’s giving me a much deeper understanding

for what our YouTube creators go through.

And I certainly never thought I’d be sharing a virtual stage

with the former president, a first lady, a Lady Gaga and a Queen B,

not to mention BTS.

I don’t think this is the graduation ceremony any of you imagined.

At a time when you should be celebrating all the knowledge you have gained,

you may be grieving what you have lost.

The moves you planned, the jobs you earned,

and the experiences you were looking forward to.

In bleak moments like these,

it can be difficult to find hope.

So let me skip right to the end and tell you what happens.

You will prevail.

That’s not really the end of the speech,

so don’t get too excited.

The reason I know you’ll prevail

is because so many others have done it before you.

A hundred years ago, class of 1920

graduated into the end of a deadly pandemic.

Fifty years ago, the class of 1970

graduated in the midst of Vietnam War.

And nearly 20 years ago,

the class of 2001 graduated just months before 9/11.

There are notable examples like this.

They had to overcome new challenges,

and in all cases, they prevailed.

The long arc of history

tells us we have every reason to be hopeful.

So, be hopeful.

There is an interesting trend I’ve noticed.

It’s very conventional for every generation

to underestimate the potential of the following one.

It’s because they don’t realize

that the progress of one generation

becomes the foundational premise for the next,

and it takes a new set of people

to come along and realize all the possibilities.

I grew up without much access to technology.

We didn’t get our first telephone till I was ten.

I didn’t have regular access to a computer

until I came to America for graduate school.

And our television, when we finally got one,

only had one channel.

So imagine how awestruck I am today

to be speaking to you on a platform

that has millions of channels.

By contrast,

you grew up with computers of all shapes and sizes.

The ability to ask a computer anything, anywhere,

the very thing I’ve spent my last decade working on,

is not amazing to you.

That’s okay. It doesn’t make me feel bad.

It makes me hopeful.

There are probably things about technology

that frustrate you and make you impatient.

Don’t lose that impatience.

It’ll create the next technology revolution

and enable you to build things

my generation could never dream of.

You may be just as frustrated

by my generation’s approach to climate change or education.

Be impatient.

It’ll create the progress the world needs.

You will make the world better in your own way,

even if you don’t know exactly how.

The important thing is to be open-minded,

so that you can find what you love.

For me, it was technology.

The more access my family had to technology,

the better our lives got.

So when I graduated, I knew I wanted to do something

to bring technology to as many others as possible.

At the time, I thought I could achieve this

by building better semiconductors.

I mean, what could be more exciting than that?

My father spent the equivalent of a year’s salary

on my plane ticket to the US, so I could attend Stanford.

It was my first time ever on a plane.

But when I eventually landed in California,

things weren’t as I had imagined.

America was expensive.

A phone call back home was more than $2 a minute,

and a backpack cost the same

as my dad’s monthly salary in India.

And for all the talk about the warm California beaches,

that water was freezing cold.

On top of all that, I missed my family,

my friends and my girlfriend,

now my wife, back in India.

A bright spot for me during this time was computing.

For the first time in my life,

I could use a computer whenever I wanted to.

Completely blew my mind.

And at that same moment,

the Internet was literally being built all around me.

The year I arrived at Stanford

was the same year the browser Mosaic was released,

which would popularize the World Wide Web and the Internet.

The summer I left was the same summer

that a graduate student named Sergey Brin

met a prospective engineering student named Larry Page.

These two moments would profoundly shape the rest of my life.

But at the time, I didn’t know it.

It took me a while to realize

that the Internet would be the single best way

to make technology accessible to more people.

And as soon as I did, I changed course

and decided to pursue my dreams at Google.

Inspired by the wonder that first browser created in me,

I led the effort to launch one called Chrome in 2009

and drove the effort to help Google develop affordable laptops and phones,

so that a student growing up in any neighborhood or village

in any part of the world

could have the same access to information as all of you.

Had I stayed the course in graduate school,

I’d probably have a PhD today

which would have made my parents really proud,

but I might have missed the opportunity

to bring the benefits of technology to so many others,

and I certainly wouldn’t be standing here speaking to you as Google CEO.

Believe me when I say I saw none of this coming

when I first touched down

in the state of California 27 years ago.

The only thing that got me from there to here, other than luck,

was a deep passion for technology and an open mind.

So take the time to find the thing

that excites you more than anything else in the world,

not the thing your parents want you to do,

or the thing that all your friends are doing,

or that society expects of you.

I know you’re getting a lot of advice today,

so let me leave you with mine.

Be open, be impatient, be hopeful.

If you can do that, history will remember the Class of 2020,

not for what you lost, but for what you changed.

You have the chance to change everything.

I’m optimistic you will.

Thank you.

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