Happy Life with No Regrets
What’s the secret to a long, happy and successful life? That seems to be a question we ask ourselves over and over. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has shared his thoughts on this very topic many times — and he might just be onto something. The purpose of his speech, called “We Are What We Choose,” was to emphasize the difference between gifts and choices: “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.” But without the benefit of hindsight, how can we tell if we’re on a path that we’ll be proud of when we look back on our lives 10, 20 or 30 years from now? 1. The Constant Struggle of Making Choices In his talk, Bezos recounted the period of time in which he first came up with the idea to start an online bookstore business (which would later become what the entire world now knows as Amazon). At the time...