This ties back to what we learned in Day 1 about that last phase of REM-heavy sleep from about seven hours and on. He wakes up every morning naturally, with no alarm clock. Jeff Bezos gets a good night’s sleep and swears on it. This is the wealthiest man in the world, leader of one of the most successful companies in the world, and he’s remarkably in control of how he invests his personal time. Like our Day 1 star, Arianna Huffington, Bezos swears on the importance of life balance and setting limits of work. To get a sense of how HUGE this accomplishment is, if you doubled the width of a piece of paper 19 times, it would be 262m high (as tall as a skyscraper).

This means he’s doubled his wealth almost 19 times. While his company,, is not the first to reach this size (Apple got there first in August 2018), what’s remarkable is that he grew Amazon from a humble online bookstore that he started in his garage in 1994, where he warned early investors that the company had a 70% chance of going bankrupt.ĭespite this, he’s gone from being worth the $300,000 his parents invested in the company to get him started, to now being worth $138.2 billion. Jeff Bezos isn’t just worth more than $100 billion ($138.2 billion as of December 2018), he’s the leader of a company whose worth recently reached $1 trillion.

The richest person in the world as of 2018, from whose example we can learn-and put together everything we’ve learned in the last nine days. I’ve saved the best for last and I mean that. Episode #10 of the course Productivity hacks: Lessons from top leaders and billionaires by John Robin

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