How the founder of amazon, Jeff Bezos handles stress

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“ I think in my particular case I laugh a

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lot so it is a you know there are I

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think stress you can be one of the

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things that's very important to note

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about stress is the stress primarily

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comes from not taking action over

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something that you can have some control

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over so if I find that some particular

Warning Flag

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thing is causing me to have stress

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that's a a warning flag for me what it

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means is there's something that I

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haven't completely identified perhaps in

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my conscious mind that is bothering me

Identifying Stress

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and I haven't yet taken any action on it

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I find as soon as I identify it and make

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the first phone call or send off the

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first email message or whatever it is

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that we're gonna do to start to address

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that situation even if it's not solved

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the mere fact that we're addressing it

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dramatically reduces any stress that

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might come from it so stress comes from

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ignoring things that you shouldn't be

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ignoring I think in large part so stress

Stress doesnt come from hard work

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doesn't come people get stress wrong all

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the time my opinion stress doesn't come

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from hard work for example you know you

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can be working incredibly hard and

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loving it and likewise you can be out of

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work and incredibly stressed over that

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so and likewise if you kind of use the

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you know use that as an analogy for what

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I was just talking about if you're out

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of work but you're going through you

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know a disciplined approach of you know

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a series of job interviews and so on and

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working to remedy that situation you're

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going to be a lot less stressed than if

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you're just worrying about it and doing

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nothing”