Jeff Bezos' Princeton Commencement Speech: What Matters More Than Your Talents
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
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. Thank you and good luck!
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| 0:00.0 | What's Shaken Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to another episode of Entrepreneurs on Fire. |
| 0:09.4 | This one's going to be different than any episode I've ever done before in the over |
| 0:13.4 | 2000 episodes of Entrepreneurs on Fire. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm going to share with you a speech that was delivered by Jeff Bezos in the title of |
| 0:20.8 | that speech is called What Matters More Than Your Talents. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm going to be doing a few of these episodes in the upcoming months so definitely stay |
| 0:28.5 | tuned and please also let me know if you liked this episode and if this is something |
| 0:33.0 | that was very valuable so that I will keep doing them if you liked them or if I get an |
| 0:36.9 | overwhelming responsive jaw and this was kind of crappy, then I'll stop doing them. |
| 0:41.0 | It's really that simple but I think it was super interesting. |
| 0:43.5 | I think that this speech by Jeff and the other ones that I have lined up are absolutely |
| 0:47.2 | incredible. |
| 0:48.4 | The idea came to me actually from James Clear. |
| 0:51.4 | He has a great email newsletter. |
| 0:53.3 | I highly recommend subscribing to it. |
| 0:55.4 | You can subscribe to it over at JamesClear.com and he put together a bunch of famous speeches |
| 1:01.0 | and great talks that I'm actually referring to for this and that's again where my inspiration |
| 1:05.1 | came from. |
| 1:06.1 | You can find that at JamesClear.com slash great-speeches. |
| 1:11.6 | Again, today's episode is going to be Jeff Bezos' speech which is called What Matters More Than |
| 1:18.0 | Your Talents. |
| 1:19.0 | We'll dive into that when we get back from thinking today's sponsor. |
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