Long-term Oriented Thinking about Projects

I heard Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, say something interesting about the projects he is working on.

When someone congratulates him on a good fiscal quarter, he thanks them but it doesn’t really make much of an impact on him. The results from this quarter were already determined by the work he did three years ago. He won’t know the results of the projects he is working on now until three years from now.

He called this a discipline. This is something you have to train yourself to do.

So . . .

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