Pichai distilled his advice into six words. Be open-minded so you can find what you love — he himself pivoted from semiconductors to the Internet to Google. Be impatient, because that frustration with the status quo, whether in technology, climate change, or education, is what creates progress. And be hopeful, because the long arc of history shows that every generation that faced adversity — the class of 1920 during a pandemic, 1970 during Vietnam, 2001 before 9/11 — ultimately prevailed. He told the Class of 2020 they would be remembered not for what they lost, but for what they changed.