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  • He constructed his own version of the Infinity Cube.

  • Bezos credits the annual summers on his grandparent’s ranch for giving him time to hone and develop his experimenting skill

  • I really gained confidence in my creative ability by helping my grandfather fix things on his ranch.

  • He often didn’t have the money to fix things, so we’d have to improvise. One time I helped him fix a Caterpillar tractor using nothing but a three-foot-high stack of mail-order manuals.

  • Experiments are key to innovation because they rarely turn out as you expect, and you learn so much

  • “You learn that when one way doesn’t work, you have to regroup and try another approach”