“ Each time you have a set back, you’re using resilience and resourcefulness, and inventing your way out of a box” says Jeff. But rather than complain, Pop would just shave his thumb along with his face. Jeff distinctly remembers how from then on “his thumb grew butt hair”. ![]() Rather than have his thumb stitched to his side to regrow, Pop just had the docs do a quicker skin graft from his butt. He was so mad that he tore the top of the thumb off and threw it in the brush, then drove himself to the hospital. He had tried to jump out of his moving truck and unlatch the farm’s gate before the car slid through, but the car slammed into the gate that nearly took off Pop’s finger, which was hanging on by a thread. Jeff’s Pop once tore the top of his thumb off. “He would take on major projects he didn’t know how to do, and then he did them” says Jeff. When the giant mail-order gears for the repair arrived, they were too heavy to move…so Pop built his own miniature crane to lift them. Jeff spent a summer repairing an old piece of Caterpillar construction equipment Pop had bought for $5000 - a huge discount because it was entirely broken. Pop went as far as making his own needles and doing his own veterinary work like suturing cattle. Without access to outside help, Pop had to rely on himself. Jeff spent summer from age four to sixteen on an isolated farm owned by his grandfather he called “Pop”. I prefer the word ‘harmony’ to the word ‘balance’ because balance tends to imply a strict tradeoff.” He reiterated these statements at Summit, telling his brother that being a valuable and cooperative coworker makes his life outside the office better, and vice versa: “If I’m happy at home, it makes me a better employee, a better boss.” “When I have dinner with friends or family, I like to be doing whatever I’m doing, I don’t like to multitask,” Bezos said.Īnother thing Bezos doesn’t like is the idea of work-life balance: “I think work-life harmony is a good framework. His brother Mark noted that Jeff is “rarely distracted by his phone,” according to TechCrunch. You don’t want to be cataloguing your regrets,” he said, adding that if his project did fail, “I would be very proud when I was 80 that I tried.”Īnd for someone who heads a platform built on the web, Bezos is surprisingly thoughtful about how he uses his phone. He wanted to make a decision that “minimized my regrets. He was working as a software engineer on Wall Street, and in 1994 he left his job despite concern from his boss about leaving to start his own company.īut Bezos didn’t want to look back wondering what would’ve happened if he didn’t pursue his vision: “The best way to think about it was to project my life forward to age 80,” he told his brother about deciding to start Amazon. Jeff Bezos shared some of his “life wisdom” in a conversation with his younger brother Mark at the recent Summit Series in Los Angeles, as TechCrunch reports.īezos, now the richest man in the world according to Forbes, took a risk when he started the supergiant of the internet age, that is now Amazon. ![]() What does Jeff Bezos believe in? Focus, harmony and optimism … inspired by his grandfather, and Star Trek December 5, 2017
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