Bezos closed his speech by asking the graduates a series of provocative questions: Will you follow dogma or be original? Will you choose a life of ease or a life of service and adventure? Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind? After posing each question, he arrived at this culminating line — a distillation of his entire philosophy about what makes a meaningful life. He also shared how he used a 'regret-minimization framework' when deciding to leave a lucrative Wall Street job to start Amazon, imagining himself at 80 and asking what he would regret not trying.