Jensen Huang Learned This Leadership Mindset From His Mom

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Jensen Huang has been CEO of Nvidia since the company’s start in 1993.

In a new talk, Huang says that he approaches problems with a specific attitude.

He learned the mindset from his mom, who taught him English when he was young from a dictionary.

Jensen Huang approaches every new problem with the mindset How hard can it be? — an attitude he learned from his mom.

In a talk at the Cambridge Union earlier this month, the Nvidia CEO explained how his mom used “a piece of paper and a dictionary” to teach him English, even though she didn’t speak the language herself.

Huang, who was born in Taiwan, was sent to the U.S. when he was nine years old for better educational opportunities, per Business Insider . His mother, who spoke Taiwanese Hokkien, started teaching him