From the course: Career Advice from Some of the Biggest Names in Business

Kai-Fu Lee on prioritizing your life to focus on what really matters

From the course: Career Advice from Some of the Biggest Names in Business

Kai-Fu Lee on prioritizing your life to focus on what really matters

(soothing music) - I'd love to end with a personal question. You talk about cancer. Your diagnosis with cancer, and how that changed you. And how it changed how you think about your career, and the time you spend at work, your own tenacity. Have you been able to hold onto that? How do you not make sure that the old Kai Fu-Lee doesn't come creeping back and take over the new Kai Fu-Lee? - Yeah, I used to be a workaholic. And I think facing cancer made me see, work is only a part of my life. I can't make it the whole thing. And then that was what gave me the epiphany. That's when AI is about to take away the routine jobs. There are other people who are a workaholic like I once was. And that they would face the same challenge if the jobs were taken and even if financially they were taken care of, they would not be satisfied because they believe work equates life. So, while I through facing death, realized that there's a lot more to work. There's the people I love. There are the things that I love to do. And I have been rebalancing my life, since my cancer go into regression. And I've been spending higher quality time with my family. Prioritizing time with them over the time at work. And perhaps we've been so foolish after thousands of years of evolution, that our maker decided to throw AI at us, and say, "Okay, you can't wake up by yourself. "I'm going to take away all those routine jobs. "Now, you've got more time. "Now, you've got more money." I mean, the whole humanity have more money. Now, you have more choice and more freedom. Will you please do the things that you love? Love the people, and spend time with them. And spend some time thinking about why humans exist. Because it's not about work. - Kai Fu, thank you very much for joining us. - Thank you.

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