Jeff Bezos: “Stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn’t be ignoring”

If I find that some particular thing is causing me to have 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 bothering me, and I haven't yet taken any action on it. I find as soon as I identify it and make the first phone call, or send off the first email message, or whatever it is that we're going to do to start to address that situation, even if it's not solved, the mere fact that we're addressing it dramatically reduces any stress that might come from it. So stress comes from ignoring things that you shouldn't be ignoring. People get stress wrong all the time, in my opinion. Stress doesn't come from hard work. For example, you can be working incredibly hard and loving it, and likewise, you can be out of work and incredibly stressed over that.