people have very high standards

how they want their work life to be

and i said look

if you can get your work life

to be where you enjoy half of it

that is amazing because very few people

ever achieve

that because the truth is everything

comes with overhead that's reality

everything comes with pieces that you

don't like you could be a supreme court

justice and there's still going to be

pieces of your job you don't like

every job comes with pieces you don't

like and we need to say

that's part of it

you have to figure out how to set up

your life in such a way that you can

minimize the things and i find people

don't dislike hard work

what people dislike and what is being

out of control

like they can't control their life they

can't control their environment this

happens to me

when i get over scheduled

i hate being over scheduled i want some

time to be able to think and free myself

we all have the same amount of time in

the world

nobody has more time than anybody else

and when you become a very successful

person

one of the things you start to get over

scheduled

so a young person starting their career

i think

there are probably a lot of things some

of them are very well known and people

have heard them many times they're still

true one of those that you should always

focus on

a young person should find something

that they're passionate about to do

and that's not going to surprise anyone

it's a clear thing to do it's very hard

if you don't love your work you're never

going to be great at it

the other thing i would suggest to

any young person

even before they start their career

is to really think about their choices

because

i find young people and i i when i was

young i had i made this mistake too

you can get

very fixed on your gifts so everybody

has gifts you know you you have gifts

and you have things that you didn't get

gifted maybe you're extremely beautiful

maybe you're extremely good at

mathematics maybe you there are a lot of

things that you can be given

but those things can confuse you because

they're not the things that construct

your life it's your choices

that construct your life not your gifts

you can celebrate your gifts be proud of

them be happy of them actually don't be

proud of them and be celebratory of them

but you can't be proud because they're

gifts they were given to you you didn't

earn them you can only be proud of the

things you earn

and so

as i got older i started to realize i

wasn't proud of my gifts i was always

good at school school was always easy

for me and i was always proud that i was

a great student i got a's in all my

classes i was good at math all of that

and i thought

i thought that's who i was but it's not

true

those are the things that are gifts what

was hard for me is deciding to work hard

deciding to

use my gifts in certain ways to

challenge myself to

do things that i didn't think i could do

to put myself in uncomfortable

situations

we all get i would say to a young person

you can choose

a life

of ease and comfort or you can choose a

life of service and adventure which one

of those when you're 90 years old are

you going to be more proud of

my advice would be the same for

any kind of entrepreneur

and that is make sure

that you are

focused on something you're passionate

about so if you look at the early

internet companies

they were

started and focused on doing something

that they thought was very interesting

long before the internet was fashionable

in any way um you know i i you know we

are currently an underdog once again

we've been in business for six years and

there was exactly one year where we were

not the underdog and that was 1999.

i like the the underdog years because it

makes uh you know i liked it when all

the people we hired their parents told

them they were crazy like that was the

that was kind of the good era

fortunately it's back

in 1999 all the parents were like you

know

giving their brothers and sisters high

fives you know my son is working at

amazon.com

so that's a very uh

you can't follow the fashion when you're

trying to do a startup company or i

think really anything in life but you

have to as an entrepreneur if you're

gonna if you're gonna build a company

pick something you think is interesting

that has the intersection of genuinely

creating real customer value

and then just stay right there and let

the wave catch you

whatever it is that you want to do

there's going to be risk in your life

and risk is a necessary component of

progress

you can make any pioneering

movements in the world of any kind

whether they be the

geographical physical exploration that

i've just been talking about or whether

it be

you know a more cerebral exploration of

a scientific field

or i bet you could ask that question of

every speaker here and i bet that every

speaker here has taken substantial risks

uh whether it be intellectual or

otherwise

to achieve what their you know what

they've done

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人们有非常高的标准

，他们希望自己的工作生活如何

，我说

看看你是否能让你的工作

生活成为你享受一半的地方

，这太棒了，因为很少有人

能做到

这一点，因为事实是一切都

伴随着开销 这就是现实

每件事都伴随着你

不喜欢的部分你可能成为最高法院

法官，但

你的工作仍然会有你不喜欢的部分

每份工作都伴随着你不

喜欢的部分，我们需要

说的是 其中一部分是

你必须弄清楚如何以

一种可以最小化事情的方式来设置你的生活

，我发现人们

不喜欢努力工作

人们不喜欢什么以及什么是

他们无法控制的失控 他们的生活 他们

无法控制他们的环境 这

发生在我身上

当我超过计划时

我讨厌被超过计划 我想要一些

时间来思考和释放自己

我们都有相同的时间

在世界上

没有人有更多的时间 比任何人 y 否则

，当你成为一个非常成功的

人时，

其中一件事是你开始超越

计划，

所以一个年轻人开始他们的职业生涯，

我认为

可能有很多事情

，其中一些是众所周知的，人们

已经听过很多次了 他们仍然是

真实的其中一个你应该始终

专注

于年轻人应该

找到他们热衷于做的事情

并且这不会让任何人感到惊讶

这是一件很明显的事情

如果你不爱那就很难 你的工作你永远

不会擅长它

我会建议

任何年轻人

甚至在他们开始职业生涯之前的另一件事

是真正考虑他们的选择，

因为

我找到了年轻人，而且我

年轻的时候我做了 这个错误

你也可以

非常关注你的天赋所以每个人

都有天赋你知道你有天赋

并且你有一些你没有

天赋的东西也许你非常漂亮

也许你非常擅长

数学也许你

你可以得到很多东西，

但这些东西会让你感到困惑，因为

它们不是构建你生活的东西，

而是你的

选择构建你的生活，而不是你的礼物，

你可以庆祝你的礼物为他们感到骄傲，为

他们感到高兴 他们实际上并不

为他们感到骄傲并为他们庆祝，

但你不能骄傲，因为它们是

他们送给你的礼物你没有

赚到你只能为你赚到的东西感到骄傲，

所以 我长大了 我开始意识到

我并不为我的天赋感到骄傲 我

在学校里总是很优秀 学校对我来说总是很容易

而且我总是为我是

一个好学生而感到自豪 我所有的课程都获得了

A 数学很好 所有这一切

，我以为

我认为这就是我，但事实并非

如此

那些是礼物

对我来说困难的是决定努力工作

决定

以某些方式使用我的礼物来

挑战自己

做我没有做的事情 '认为我

不能让自己处于不舒服的

境地

我想对年轻人说

，你可以选择安逸舒适的生活，也可以选择

服务和冒险

的生活

对于

任何类型的企业家来说

，建议都是一样的，那就是

确保你

专注于你热爱的

事情，所以如果你看看早期的

互联网公司，

他们

成立并专注于

做他们认为很有趣

的事情。 在互联网以任何方式流行之前，

嗯，你知道 ii 你知道我们

现在再次处于劣势，

我们已经经营了六年，而且

恰好有一年我们

不是劣势，那是 1999 年。

我喜欢 失败者的岁月，因为它

让你知道我喜欢它，当

我们雇用的所有人告诉他们他们的父母

都像那样疯狂时，

那是一个好时代，

幸运的是，

回到 1999 年，所有的父母都像你一样

知道

给他们的兄弟姐妹

击掌你知道我儿子在 amazon.com 工作

所以这是一个非常呃

当你试图做一家初创公司时你不能跟随时尚，

或者我

认为生活中的任何事情，但你

有 作为一名企业家，

如果你要建立一家公司，

那就选择你认为有趣的东西

，它具有真正

创造真正客户价值的交集

，然后就呆在那里，

让浪潮抓住你，

不管你是什么

你的生活中会有风险

，风险是进步的必要组成部分，

你可以

在世界上进行任何形式的开创性运动，

无论是我刚才所说的

地理物理探索，

还是

你知道对科学领域的更深思熟虑的探索，

或者我敢打赌你可以问

这里的每个演讲者这个问题，我敢打赌这里的每个

演讲者都冒了很大的风险，

无论是智力还是

否则

要实现他们的你知道

他们做了什么

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