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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton University

As a kid, I spend my ? my grandparents under ? Texas. I have to fix windows, fax~, and do other chores. ? so far ? every afternoon, specially days ? my grandparents belong to a caravan club. A group of airstream trailer owners who travel together around US and Canada. And every a few ? we join the caravan. we ? the airstream my grandfather car ?. And a line with 300 other airstream ?. I loved warship my grandfather. And I really look for to the trips. A one particular trip, I was about 10 years old, I was rolling around in the big van sheet in the back of the car. my grandfather was driving and my grandmother had passenger sheet. She smoked throughout this trips. And I hated smells. At ? I take any execuse to make estimate do my ? I calculate gas mileage, figure out ? things like grocery spending. I have been hearing ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said every popular cigarett take some number of minute of your life. I think my ? too ?. At anyway I decided ? my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigaretts full day. Estimated number of pops full cigaretts so on. When I was satisfied that I come up with the resonable number, I folked my head ? car tap to my grandmother on the shoulder and proudly proclaimed at two minutes ?, you take 9 years off of your life. I ?. And it was not expected. I expected to be ? my cleverness and my ~ skills. Jeff, you are so smart! you had to ? estimated. figure out the number of minutes ~ years. ?. That's not were happend. Instead, my grandmother ? in the tears. At sat in the back seat, didn't know what to do, oh my grandmother crying. my grandfather who had been driving in suns, ? highway. he ~ car and came ? open my door wait ~. Was ? trouble? my grandfather was highly intelligent and quiet man. He never ? to me. maybe ? first time. Or maybe he ? get back in the car and apolizies to my grandmother. I had no experience in this ? with my grandparents, and noway ? what the consequence my be. We start ? trailer my grandfather looked at me. And after bit of silience he gently and carmly said, Jeff, one day you'll understand that is harder to be kind than clever. But I wanna talk to you about today, It's the difference between gifts and choices. cleverness is gift. kindness is choice. gift is so easy. The given after all. Choices can be hard. you can seduce ?. And if you do, probably ? choices. these is group with many gifts. I'm sure one of gifts, ? smart and capable smart. I'm confident

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