Why I started over when I didn't have to | Kenny Lee | TEDxFargo

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Most people start over because they have to. Kenny Lee did it on purpose, at 40, with no crisis forcing a change. His path had already run from a corporate career to founding a startup, then back to school at MIT. There he wrote down three rules for whatever came next: Choose impact. Choose hard. Choose unknown. The rules took him into agriculture—an industry he knew nothing about—and to building autonomous, solar-powered robots that pull weeds, his bet on a more sustainable way to farm. Years in, he realized the rules weren’t his. He’d learned them as a kid, watching his father, who left Korea at 38 with a career and a country behind him, and kept choosing to begin again for the rest of his life. This talk is about what it costs to become a beginner on purpose, and why the absence of guarantees might be the point. It asks how you measure a life when the scoreboard isn’t what you accomplished, but who and what is different because you were here. Kenny Lee is the co-founder and CEO of A

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