You guys will find that you have passions and having a passion is a gift.

I think we all have passions and you don't get to choose them.

They pick you, but you have to be alert to them.

You have to be looking for them and when you find your passion, it's a fantastic gift

for you because it gives you direction, it gives you purpose.

You could have a job or you can have a career or you can have a calling and the best thing

is to have a calling.

And if you find your passion, you'll have that and all your work won't feel like work

to you.

Many, many kids and many grownups do figure out over time what their passions are.

And sometimes we let our, I don't think it's that hard, I think what happens though sometimes

is that we let our intellectual selves overrule those passions.

And so that's what needs to be guarded against.

My job, one of my jobs as the leader of Amazon, is to encourage people to be bold.

And people love to focus on things that aren't yet working and that's good, it's human

nature that kind of divine discontent can be very helpful.

But you really, it's incredibly hard to get people to take bold bets and you need to

encourage that.

And if you're going to take bold bets, they're going to be experiments and if they're experiments,

you don't know ahead of time that they're going to work.

Experiments are, by their very nature, prone to failure.

But big successes, a few big successes compensate for dozens and dozens of things that didn't

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