Yet he paired his abundance of social confidence with an intentional lack of epistemic confidence. He was brimming with social confidence - famously charming, witty and ebullient. When he was asked about Amazon's volume of daily transactions, and Bezos was able to pull up the answer with a few keystrokes, Doerr "swooned."īenjamin Franklin is another example. In that moment, I wanted to be in business with Jeff," Doerr said in an interview with Brad Stone, author of "The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon."ĭoerr was also impressed with the ease of movement in Bezos' technical proficiency.
"I walked into the door and this guy with a boisterous laugh who was just exuding energy comes bounding down the steps. Doerr left that meeting wowed by Amazon and ready to invest. Bezos' big break came in the spring of 1996, when he received a visit from John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins - one of the most prestigious venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. Social confidence also involves how you carry yourself. Like Bezos, they are not afraid to express uncertainty, and they can hold a crowd's attention when they speak. Individuals who embrace this type of thinking are often remarkably self-assured. In one of his answers, Bezos shared an interesting insight: "People who are right a lot change their minds often." In a 2012 blog post, Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp, recounts a time when the Amazon founder stopped by his company's headquarters to do a Q&A session. In fact, some of the most successful - and likable - people have more of the latter.
It's also easy to picture someone lacking in both types, stammering nervously, "Uh, I'm not really sure what we should do here."īut epistemic confidence and social confidence don't have to be a package deal. It's easy to picture, for example, a leader pumping up his team with an inspiring pep talk about how there's no doubt in his mind that they're going to succeed. Nanny state tho.We tend to conflate both types of confidence. "full_text": "Outsiders: Singapore has such great food, it’s so multicultural & stuff.
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