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Jeff Bezos on Stress and Hard Work

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos believes that stress doesn’t come from long hours or hard work, but from avoiding issues that need attention.

Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over.

Bezos made this statement in a 2001 interview at the Academy of Achievement Summit in San Antonio, according to Fortune. At the time, Bezos was 37 and a newly minted billionaire after Amazon’s 1997 IPO.

You can be working incredibly hard and loving it. And likewise, you can be out of work and incredibly stressed over that.

Bezos described stress as a warning signal rather than a consequence of hard work, stating that if he finds something causing him stress, it’s a warning flag to take action.

Author's summary: Bezos views stress as a result of inaction, not hard work.

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