The difference between gifts and choices. Pat 2

[Dan L]

From Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos once again.


Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after
all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not
careful, and if you do, it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.

Your smarts will come in handy because you will travel in a land of marvels.
We humans -- plodding as we are -- will astonish ourselves. We'll invent ways
to generate clean energy and a lot of it. Atom by atom, we'll assemble tiny machines
that will enter cell walls and make repairs.

Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life -- the life you author from scratch
on your own -- begins.

How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?

Will you follow dogma, or will you be original?

Will you choose a life of ease, or a life of service and adventure?

Will you wilt under criticism, or will you follow your convictions?

Will you bluff it out when you're wrong, or will you apologize?

Will you guard your heart against rejection, or will you act when you fall in
love?

Will you play it safe, or will you be a little bit swashbuckling?

When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?

Will you be a cynic, or will you be a builder?

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment
of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life
story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series
of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great
story.

 

[BiancaC]

Why he is the CEO and founder of Amazon. Sharp mind.