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Jeff Bezos is a great example of someone who had a high-paying job, but quit to go create a startup (Amazon.com). "...and the framework I found which made the
by troymc 16y ago
Jeff Bezos is a great example of someone who had a high-paying job, but quit to go create a startup (Amazon.com).
"...and the framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called -- which only a nerd would call -- a "regret minimization framework." So, I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, "Okay, now I'm looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have." I knew that when I was 80 I was not going to regret having tried this..."
- quoted from http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bez0int-3 http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/bez0int-3
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoTerrible example, definitely an outlier, nothing to base your career on.
- troymc 16y agoIt only takes one person to prove that something is possible. Your comment also implies that people should only base their career decisions on what non-outlier (average) people have done. That sounds like a recipe for mediocrity. "A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw