Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on why he thinks stress is a warning for him that he has not …
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has once again offered a timeless insight into stress management. Bezos believes that stress is not caused by hard work, in fact it is a a warning sign that you are avoiding something important. In a resurfaced quote from a 2001 interview, recently highlighted in a Fortune article, Bezos said that stress often comes from procrastination or neglecting priorities, nit from being overloaded. “Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something that you can have some control over,” Bezos said. “I find as soon as I identify it, and make the first phone call, or send off the first email… it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it.”
A CEO’s take on emotional efficiency
