Realistic Expectations and Chunking: Keys to Achieving Big Goals

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Jeff Bezos emphasizes the importance of realistic expectations in achieving goals, using the example of a woman's journey to achieving a perfect handstand. The chapter discusses the illusion of overnight success and the need to break down big goals into smaller tasks, while also highlighting the significance of focusing on the journey rather than the destination.

Do you know that Amazon has 560,000 employees and 300,000,000 customers? Right now, today, there are people out there that are struggling to reply to their emails or get 1 customer -- So how does Amazon get 300 million of them? The secret Jeff Bezos uses is something called "chunking".

Chunking is the process of clearly defining the end goal and then reverse engineering all the way back to the current day -- By doing this, he takes a monumental task and turns it into small bite-sized chunks that can be executed on this hour and today. The concept of chunking has completely changed my life and allowed me to achieve long term things... Today I thought I'd share it with you because I'm sure it can do the same for you!