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"If you're at the bottom for long / You're doing something wrong."

Definitely don't listen to the people at the bottom telling you how to run your life. Ideally, listen to people who started where you started, and rose to where you want to get.

Bezos himself started fairly low. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos#Early_life_and_educ...

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> Definitely don't listen to the people at the bottom telling you how to run your life. Ideally, listen to people who started where you started, and rose to where you want to get.

There's a lot of bad advice there too. People like to attribute their success to something they did but most people have no clue why they are successful. Luck has a lot to do with it and sometimes people succeed in spite of things they think might help.

Who would you rather be: the person who attributes their success to their actions, or the person who complains about not being successful?

You don't necessarily have control over whether you're successful, but you have a lot of control over how you see yourself and your personal narrative.

Why would i want to be anyone but myself? But to answer your point, arrogance and ignorance are not something to covet and neither is whining.

This is advice for Amazon employees specifically. The incentives are not for him to give advice on how to become Jeff Bezos.

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