🤫 Let's learn from these leaders' secrets and regrets.

From Amazon's Jeff Bezos, to Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, everyone's got secrets we can all learn from.

In this week’s edition of Monday Mavens, we’ve gathered lessons from the successes and failures of leaders. A lot can be avoided or achieved more quickly when you imply these insights in your daily lives.

A decade in the Valley

Throughout the 10 years of his journey in Silicon Valley, serial entrepreneur Justin Kan had a lot of misses, before eventually scoring a win with Twitch. He has shared in a series of tweets some of the secrets that led him to where he is today, including understanding that achieving your goals won’t deliver lasting happiness.

According to his experiences, lasting happiness comes from connecting through other people, which should start with vulnerability and curiosity. Read the full thread here.

The secret is to minimize regret

“Be nimble and robust”, “be proud not of your gifts, but your hard work and choices”, “be stubborn on your vision, but flexible on the details.” These are some of the famous words of Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of tech giant Amazon. Behind all the golden words, there is a silver lining that Bezos lives by, which is the Regret Minimization Framework. It’s basically how you should project yourself to the future when making any decisions.

Watch this 2-minute clip of Bezos’s interview on this topic, or you can learn more about the concept here.

Escaping the trap of dogma

Fifteen years ago, the late founder of Apple and Pixar, Steve Jobs, stated in his commencement speech for Stanford graduates that you should never be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. The adversity in his life led him to believe in following your heart and intuition, even when the noise of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Not copying other people’s ways of living is also one of the 14 CEO lessons compiled by Forbes, which you can read the full list of here.

Hope to see you next week with less regrets and a clearer outlook on life!