Nikesh Arora shares insights on business and uncertainty (Part 3)

Like more of like a stoic kind of person. You seem like you don't get stressed or you said, like I read something like you said your business doesn't stress you, which is very unusual. Yeah. Thing to say. You shouldn't stress. You should wake up every morning, do the best you can, and then remember if you grew up sort of in India with Hinduism, it was like there's a strong sense of fatalism. All you can do is you do your best. Okay. I don't know about this. Explain rest is explain how you grew up in like this fatalism thing. Remember, like you've got 1.8 billion people in the country. You've got to make sure that they all understand that they can do their best. And eventually there is a hand of God which dictates what eventually happens. Or it's the notion that there's uncertainty. You can't create full certainty things will happen to you which you can't control. The only thing you can control is what you do. And if you do what you do really well, then you should sleep well because you can't get worried about everything that can happen to you. From an uncertainty perspective. That is a sense of fatalism. That is what keeps society somewhat orderly. Well, you do understand it's easy to say that and very hard to apply for a lot of humans. Well, look, doesn't stop anyone from trying. Right? We try and control every outcome that we can around us. We try and minimize risk around us. We all do that. But at some point in time we're going to say, I've done my best. Did you have this ability when you were younger and early in your career? No. This is recently found in the past five years. Yes. You're saying this is the last five years. So you're working at Google. High stress, more anxious person. No, Google's the best business. Like you know, the search business. Yeah, but still, like that was like the greatest. Like that, that seems to me maybe I'm wrong is like you, you had like a lot of success before that, but you're, you know, you're working on like, you know, once in 100 year company at that point you had, and you were young, you were in your 30s, right? Yeah, like I, I, it can get to your head. Yeah, like it could, but I feel like the pressure to like, this is a huge opportunity. This could be a once in a lifetime. This, this will change. This opportunity will change my life. It's funny, it didn't feel like that when you were there. Okay, say more about that. Normal. You just felt, wow, this is this great rocket ship that's working. And remember, you're 34. You've never actually worked in any other company of a similar ilk. You're now at the center of attention of technology. And like, great. Everybody's searching around you. Every morning you wake up, there are more searches. Every morning when you wake up, more people want to advertise. So it's an execution problem. Saying, how can I get. Like, when I joined, people were spending money at Google in Austria with an American credit card. That's the only way you could buy advertising in Europe. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? It comes like, I'm so sorry, I can't collect your money. You got to go get yourself an American credit card in US Dollars and then pay me. And they're doing it. Wait, let me do that.