Motivation Daily by Motiversity - Jeff Bezos's Life Advice Will Change Your Future | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever

Episode Date: June 20, 2023

Jeff Bezos's life advice will change your future. It is simply one of the best motivational videos ever!! Apply these teachings to your goals and change your life.In this episode, you will learn how Jeff Bezos started from nothing and built an empire that changed the world. You will discover his principles, habits, and mindsets that helped him overcome any obstacle and achieve his vision. Listen now and get ready to change your life!"I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried, and I knew that that would haunt me everyday."Speaker:Jeff BexosMusic:Epidemic SoundAudiojungl▶Subscribe for New Motivational Videos Every Week: http://bit.ly/MotivationVids▶DOWNLOAD our Top 100 Quotes of All Time:https://bit.ly/topquotesfreepdf▶JOIN our Newsletter for Exclusive Updates, Discounts, and Deals: https://bit.ly/Motiversitynewsletter▶READ our Weekly Blog - https://bit.ly/motiversityblog▶SHOP Official Motivational Canvases and Apparel - https://bit.ly/motiversityshop▶BECOME A MEMBER of our loyal community!https://bit.ly/motiversitymembers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. Went to my boss and said to him, you know, I'm going to go do this crazy thing. And I'm going to start this company selling books online. Then he said, let's go on a walk. We went on a two-hour walk in Central Park in New York City. And the conclusion of that was this, he said, you know, this actually sounds like a really good idea.

me but it sounds like it would be a better idea for somebody who didn't already have a good job and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision and so I went away and was trying to find the right framework in which to make that kind of big decision and you know I already talked to my wife about this and she was very supportive and said look you know you can count me in 100 percent so it really was the decision that I had to make for myself And the framework I found, which made the decision incredibly easy, was what I called, which only a nerd would call a regret minimization framework. So I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, okay, now I'm looking back on my life.

I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have. And, you know, I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret having wanted, you know, trying to participate in this thing called the internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn't regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. And I knew that that would haunt me every day. So when I thought about it that way, it was an incredibly easy decision. If you can project yourself out to age 80 and sort of think, what will I think at that time?

It gets you away from some of the daily pieces of confusion. You know, I left this Wall Street firm in the middle of the year. When you do that, you walk away from your annual bonus. And that's the kind of thing. Then the short term can confuse you. But if you think about the long term, then you can really make good life decisions that you won't regret later. Jeff's keen eye and ability to look proactively toward the future while taking calculated risk has contributed to his success. His instincts told him the information.

internet was going to bring massive opportunity for those willing to be creative. Despite doubt and criticism from those around him, he knew taking this leap of faith would be the best decision for not only himself, but for future generations as well. One of my jobs, as the leader of Amazon, is to encourage people to be bold. And people love to focus on things that aren't yet working. And that's good. It's human nature. That kind of divine discontent can be very helpful. But it's incredibly hard to get people to take.

bold bets and you need to encourage that and if you're going to take bold bets they're going to be experiments and if they're experiments you don't know ahead of time whether they're going to work experiments are by their very nature prone to failure but big successes a few big successes compensate for dozens and dozens of things that didn't work so you know bold bets aWS kindle amazon prime our third-party seller business all of those things are examples of bold bets that did work and they pay for a lot of experiments. I've made billions of dollars of failures at amazon.com literally billions of dollars of failures but they also they don't matter what really matters is companies that don't continue to experiment

companies that don't embrace failure they eventually get in the desperate position where they the only thing they can do is make a kind of Hail Mary back at the very end of their corporate existence. Whereas companies that are making bets all along, even, you know, big bets, but not bet the company bets. I don't believe in bet the company bets. That's when you're desperate. That's the last thing you can do.

You know, you don't choose your passions, your passions choose you, how they are for them. You're never completely sure. But I do think you get imprinted somehow early on with certain things, you just get excited about them. And because you're excited, you pay more attention, and they grow. being an inventor requires, because the world is so complicated,

you have to be a domain expert. I mean, in a way, even if you're not at the beginning, you have to learn, learn, learn, learn, enough so to become a domain expert. But the danger is once you've become a domain expert, you can be trapped by that knowledge. And so inventors have this paradoxical ability to have that 10,000 hours of practice

and be a real domain expert and have that beginner's mind. have that look at it freshly even though they know so much about the domain and that's the key to inventing you have to have both and I think that is intentional I think all of us have that inside of us and we can all do it but you have to be intentional about it you have to say yeah I am gonna become an expert and I'm gonna keep my beginner's mind well long-term thinking is a lever it lets you do things that you could not do or couldn't even conceive of

doing if you were thinking short term. You know if if I collaborated with somebody here in this audience and I said look I want you to solve what world hunger and I want you to do it in five years you would properly reject the opportunity you would say look it's not possible it's not practical but if I said look I want you to solve world hunger in a hundred years that's a job you'd take because it's a much more addressable problem you can first create the conditions. You have time to create the conditions where then you can solve the problem. And so that's a very important way of thinking. And it works with everything. I mean,

you have to back up and find the right time horizon for what you're trying to do. But, you know, at Amazon, we probably do most of our things we expect to get some results in sort of five, six, seven, eight years. But we find a lot of our other companies that compete against us in various ways they're often trying to get things done in, you know, two or three years. And so we can do things that, you know, if you, if everything has to work in two to three years, then that limits what you can do. If you give yourself the breathing room to say, okay, I'm okay if it takes seven years, all of a sudden you have way more opportunities. Take bets. Be an expert with a beginner's mindset and planning your goals in a long-term format are some of the secrets behind Bezos success.

Being able to constantly adapt and learn the growing market is essential to make your company, your brand, and your name go down in history. Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Galileo, Newton, all the curious from the ages would have wanted to be alive most of all right now. As a civilization, we will have so many gifts, just as you as individuals have so many individual gifts as you sit before me. How will you use these gifts? And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices? You can choose. We all get to choose our life stories. And it's the choices that define us not our gifts.

Everybody in this room has many gifts. I have many gifts. You can never be proud of your gifts because they're gifts. They were given to you. You might be, you know, tall, or you might be really good at math, or you might be extremely beautiful or handsome. or, you know, there are many gifts. And you can only be proud really of your choices,

because those are the things that you are acting on. And one of the most important choices that each of us has, and you know this just as well as I do, is you can choose a life of ease and comfort, or you can choose a life of service and adventure. and when you're 80, which one of those things you think you're going to be more proud of? You're going to be more proud of having chosen a life of service and adventure. Choose a life of adventure, a life worth looking back at in 80 years with no regrets.

Create a story to tell and let the world be inspired by it.