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Jeff Bezos: “Stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn’t be ignoring” “If I find that some particular thing is causing me stress, that’s a warning flag for me. What it means is there’s something that I haven’t completely identified - perhaps in my conscious mind - that is...

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