🌟Speech at Stanford Graduation Ceremony, 2026

🎓 "There are thousands of moments ahead in your life... the important thing is not to do everything right, but to find a way forward every day."

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gave a speech at Stanford Graduation Ceremony 2026, and I think this is not just a new graduate's recommendation, but a life compass for all ages.

In an age of unprecedented rapid world change, many people put pressure on themselves to make the right decision every time, to choose the best path, not to miss it, and to succeed as planned.

But Sundar reminds us that life doesn't work that way.

Most choices in life are not the end, but the experiences that help us grow up.

From a young boy in Chennai, India, to leading one of the world's most powerful tech companies, he shared three "life filters" that brought him to this point.

1️⃣ Choose Optimism

We don't always choose the circumstances around us, but we choose a perspective that can see the world.

Sundar recalled that upon first arriving in California, he saw the barren mountains as "brown," but instead the host family said,

"We prefer to see it as golden."

By changing the lens of the same world, it could become another world.

2️⃣ Lean Into Hard Problems

When Google launched Chrome in 2008, many viewed it as having no way to fight a competitor.

But the team chose to move on.

Difficult problems often attract talents, brave people and people ready to build the future.

And even if it is not immediately accomplished, what we learn and build along the way is often worth more than what we think.

3️⃣ Do What Excites You (Follow What Excites You)

Don't build a life up to other people's expectations.

Follow what makes you powerful, want to learn, and be able to talk about it all day without feeling bored.

Because excitement is the fuel that allows us to keep walking the day the motivation starts to fade.

The interesting thing is that these three are not separate, but the same system of thinking.

Optimism gives us the courage to deal with difficult problems.

Facing difficult problems gives us the opportunity to discover what we are passionate about.

And when we do things that excite us, we will be powerful enough to move forward even on a day when the results are not as expected.

💡 my view.

Whether you're a freshman, a working person looking for a turning point, an entrepreneur facing uncertainty, or anyone who's starting a new role in life.

Perfection may be just an illusion.

But the ability to maintain Optimistic Momentum is more important.

Life is not measured by every right decision.

But measured by the ability to move on after each decision.

Failure, change of plans, or something not going the way it hoped for doesn't mean we're defeated.

It's just "information" that makes us stronger, smarter and ready to move on.

"Brown Mountain" does not mean a lost problem, but refers to the original problem we choose to look at with a new eye.

Sometimes, what changes our lives is not changing the situation, but changing our outlook on the situation.

What's the matter with "brown mountain" today?

And if you look at it through a new lens, how can it become a "golden mountain"? 👇

Watch the full speech here: https://stanford.io/4e8weWd

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(🎥 Sundar Pichai gives Stanford's 2026 Commencement address:)