- Lauren Sánchez stated her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, set a rule to not use their telephones within the morning.
- She added that they benefit from the “magic second” of speaking to one another.
Lauren Sánchez says Jeff Bezos has a rule for them to begin their mornings proper.
“My favourite a part of the day is the morning,” Sanchez, 54, informed People in an interview printed on Thursday.
She makes a espresso for herself and the Amazon founder, whom she acquired engaged to in May final yr. The couple then enjoys the “magic second” within the morning when it is simply them speaking, she stated.
“The children have not woken up but. And we do not get on our telephones. That’s one of many guidelines,” Sánchez stated.
The couple have a blended household. Sánchez has three children, one with ex-boyfriend Tony Gonzalez, and two together with her ex-husband Patrick Whitesell. Bezos has 4 kids with ex-wife MacKenzie Scott. Which of the kids stay with them will not be confirmed.
Sánchez, a former information anchor, stated she would in all probability use her cellphone if it had been as much as her. Bezos “undoubtedly” made the rule, she added. “It wasn’t me. But the mornings are only for us so long as we are able to.”
During a 2018 speech on the Washington Economic Club, Bezos stated he spends his morning studying the newspaper, ingesting espresso, and having breakfast together with his kids. Calling it his “puttering time,” he added that the routine gave him vitality and improved his decision-making.
In a December episode of Lex Fridman’s podcast, Bezos outlined “putter” as slowly transferring round. “I’m not as productive as you would possibly assume I’m,” the world’s second-richest man stated with amusing.
“I transfer fairly slowly within the first couple of hours. I rise up early, simply naturally. And then, you realize, I train most days,” he stated.
Morning routines range amongst CEOs
While Bezos stays away from his cellphone, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, does the other.
“The very first thing I do is have a look at my cellphone. I have a look at Facebook to see what is going on on on the planet,” Zuckerberg stated in a stay Facebook Q&A in 2016.
“It’s a fairly unhappy state of affairs, to be trustworthy,” he stated concerning the behavior.
Zuckerberg’s morning routine additionally usually consists of Brazilian jiujitsu and MMA coaching and carrying the identical outfit to cut back brainpower.
Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, wakes up earlier than the solar rises — at 4 a.m. to five a.m. He then spends the primary hour responding to emails, he informed Dua Lipa on her podcast in November 2023.
Similarly, the CEO of Snap, Evan Spiegel wakes up at 4.45 a.m.
“I rise up actually early, as a result of that is the one time that is ‘Evan Time’ for me, when individuals aren’t actually awake but. I get a pair hours between 5 a.m. and seven a.m. to do no matter I wanna do,” he stated in a 2018 interview printed in Entrepreneurship Handbook.
But not all CEOs rise on the first light. Elon Musk, the CEO of Space X and Tesla, informed The Wall Street Journal in February final yr that he works late into the evening and usually wakes up at 9 a.m.
And though it was not confirmed if he was severe or simply joking, Musk as soon as replied to a physician’s publish on X: “I eat a donut each morning. Still alive.”
Bezos did not instantly reply to a request for remark from Business Insider, despatched outdoors enterprise hours.
