Jeff Bezos says stress is a signal to work harder, not a reason to stop
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Jeff Bezos says stress comes from inaction and vanishes the moment you take the first step toward fixing a problem
Jeff Bezos, the founder of the company that just became the number one Fortune 500 business, says the cure for anxiety is not rest or meditation but action. Speaking at the Museum of Flight in Seattle in 2017, Bezos told an audience of students that stress is a signal from the body that something is being neglected, and that the feeling disappears the moment he starts working on whatever is causing it. “I find that the stress goes away the second I take the first step,” he said.
The comments, resurfaced by Fortune this week, offer a window into how the world’s fourth-richest person thinks about pressure. Bezos said he treats anxiety as diagnostic information rather than an emotional state to manage, and that the worst thing...
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