🤗 A Turing Award professor Richard Hamming talks about success and what it takes to achieve it.

Hamming, “You and your research” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw&list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30&index=32

• Luck favors prepared minds, you prepare yourself for the luck to strike you. Constant hard work and constant enthusiasms.

• High IQ is not a prerequisites for success, such as Newton and Einstein in their early days.

• Great people believe they can do great work. Learn from the great people and learn their style and think how you can learn from them. When you got stuck, you should be scared of nothing and go ahead. You should deliberately copy Great People’s style and attack the problem, like what Shannon did in the chess ♟️ game who already attack to break the conundrum.

• You plant an acorn 🌱 to grow into mighty oak 🌳 trees. You need to work on the important things. If you are not working on the important things and you will not to be the important things except by the dumbest of dumb luck.

• if you work closed doors, you might work on a slightly wrong problem which eventually turns out to be unimportant. You have to get a wide feeling of what’s going on.

• Study successes and try to study other people how they succeed. How to adopt their styles into your own style.

• Find a regular time to stop and think:
• 1. what are the important things.
• 2. what is going on.
• 3. what is the nature of what you are going.
• 4. what is the characteristic of your job
• 5. what are the fundamentals behind it.

• Tolerance of ambiguity is a great attestation of your mind, both believe and disbelieve.

• It’s the style that you do it that makes a difference.

• Communicate orally, written and in casual way. Listen to others successful styles.

• Change does not mean progress, but progress means change.

• Great is defined by others, not yourself.