What Jeff Bezos Says About Sleep

and so then on sleep I get eight hours of sleep I prioritize it unless I'm traveling in different time zones sometimes it's impossible but I am very focused on it and and in the for me I need a dose of sleep I think better I have more energy my mood is better all these things and think about it as a senior executive what do you really get paid to do as a senior executive you get paid to make a small number of high-quality decisions your your job is not to make thousands of decisions every day so let's say that I slept six hours a day well let's go really crazy and say I slept four hours a day so now I just got four so-called productive hours back so if I was going to you know have say twelve hours of productive time during any waking day now all of a sudden I have 12 plus 4 I have sixteen productive hours so I have 33% more time to make decisions so if I was going to make you know a hundred decisions now I can make 133 decisions but if I did that arithmetic wrong I'm sorry and and so your make a hundred and thirty three decisions is that really worth it if the quality of those decisions might be lower because you're tired or grouchy or any number of things now it's different if it's a startup company I mean you know you're really you know when Amazon was a hundred people it's a different story but but Amazon's not a startup company and all of our senior executives operate the same way I do they work in the future they live in the future none of the people who report to me should really be focused on the current quarter I always tell people sometimes I get you know we'll have a good quarterly conference call or something and and Wall Street will like our quarterly results and I'll get people will stop me and say congratulations on your quarter and I say thank you but what I'm really thinking is that quarter was baked to three years ago i right now I'm working on a quarter that's going to reveal itself in 2021 sometime and that's what you need to be doing you need to be sort of you know two or three years in advance and if you are and then why do I need to make a hundred decisions today if I make like three good decisions a day that's enough and they should just be as high quality as I can make them Warren Buffett says he's good if he makes three good decisions a year sleep God's calm [Music]

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Length: 2min 47sec (167 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 01 2019