Jensen Huang: "Intelligence is not top of my list of things I value about my abilities." Someone asks: what's the real skill that separates great builders from everyone else? Huang responds: "I hope you believe in something, something unconventional, something unexplored, but let it be informed and let it be reasoned. Then dedicate yourself to making it happen." He offers a test: "Of all of the things that I value most about my abilities, intelligence is not top of that list. My ability to endure pain and suffering, my ability to work on something for a very, very long period of time, my ability to handle setbacks and see the opportunity just around the corner ... I consider to be my superpowers." On why he doesn't wait for perfect markets: "We chose a market with no customers, a $0 billion market, and it was robotics. We built the world's first robotics computer processing an algorithm nobody understood at the time called deep learning. Ten years later, I can't be happier with what we've built." He explains why timing rarely works the way people expect: "One setback after another, we shook it off and skated to the next opportunity. Each time, we gained skills and strengthened our character. Our company is really hard to distract and really hard to discourage." Huang points to a lone gardener at the Silver Temple in Kyoto, carefully picking dead moss with a bamboo tweezer from a garden the size of a courtyard: "He said, 'I have cared for my garden for 25 years. I have plenty of time.' That was one of the most profound learnings in my life." He shares a thought experiment: "I begin each morning by doing my highest priority work first. Before I even get to work, my day is already a success. I've already completed my most important work and can dedicate my day to helping others. When people apologize for interrupting me, I always say I have plenty of time... and I do." On getting lucky with breakthroughs: "We did well in 2012 because Hinton, Krizhevsky, and Sutskever used our GPUs to win ImageNet. We did well because we believed in deep learning before anyone else did. If you build it, will they come? Our logic was: if we don't build it, they can't come." Then he delivers the point: "I hope you find a craft you want to dedicate your lifetime to perfecting, to hone the skills of, and let it be your life's work. But you don't want to spend your life waiting for the perfect moment to start.