In what seems to be panning out to be community service week for big-time tech CEOs, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took the stage yesterday in order to inspire the graduating eighth graders at Belle Haven Community School in Menlo Park, CA.
Impetus behind the speech: Facebook is moving its headquarters to Menlo Park, so Zuck (Mr. Z or Mr. Mark Zuckerman according the Belle Haven principal) was just being neighborly.
“I don’t remember much about my middle school graduation,” Zuckerberg said, relating a story about a teacher he had that looked like a pirate “When you look back on your middle school graduation, you probably won’t remember that much either but I hope you have fun.”
Zuck continues, pontificating on the theme, “Illuminating the words ‘I can’t,” basically giving the eighth grade version of Steve Jobs’ Stanford “Do What You Love” speech.
“Everything that’s worth doing is actually pretty hard,” Zuck said. “It’s not about a single moment of inspiration or brilliance, it’s years and years of practice and hard work … Anything that’s really awesome takes a lot of work.”
Source: TechCrunch