找到自己的最好方法就是在为他人服务中迷失自己。
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that Web usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles -- something that simply couldn't exist in the physical world -- was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I'd been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most startups don't, and I wasn't sure what would happen after that. MacKenzie (also a Princeton grad and sitting here in the second row) told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I'd been a garage inventor. I'd invented an automatic gate closer out of cement-filled tires, a solar cooker that didn't work very well out of an umbrella and tinfoil, baking-pan alarms to entrap my siblings. I'd always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
The best ideas often come from the quietest voices in the room.
正所谓“物以类聚,人以群分”,自己处在什么样的圈子里,自己一定有这个圈子的特点。自身的荣辱祸福都是由自己的行为决定的。比如,两堆柴火堆放的样子差不多,但是火星总是容易在干的那一堆里着起火。很多时候我们抱怨别人和不顺心的事,然而往往是自身的问题。