I'm the same person I am at home as I am at work - I just wear different clothes and sit at a different table. It's all my life. We need to take time off to engage with things that challenge our brains so that we can see the world differently.
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I'm actually quite good about taking time for myself where I disconnect from everything.
I'm a great believer, when people take vacation but they're online the whole time, that's not a vacation, that's telecommuting from a beach.
And so one could argue that in our modern day and age, we actually take zero vacation.
And we have zero evenings and zero weekends.
And I think that's incredibly unhealthy.
And so as a company and as an individual we're pretty good.
If I get emails on a weekend, if I look at them, which I don't always, I will not reply until Monday because it's the weekend.
There's always exceptions.
And when I go on vacation, I tell my team, I'm on vacation, if there's an emergency, deal with it.
Because I'm on vacation.
And quite frankly, anybody who goes to a retreat or an offsite or takes a day off and checks in on a regular basis,
nothing says I don't trust my team more than feeling the need to check in every hour.
You're literally telling people, you can't do this without me.
I have to be on every email.
So I'm really good when I decide to disconnect, to completely disconnect from work.
And I understand that ideas, I recognize that we talk about work-life balance.
Work and life are not opposing forces.
Balance is the wrong analogy.
I'm the same person at home as I am at work.
It's just different clothes and a different table I sit at.
And so what I try and do is recognize that it's all my life.
And there's no difference in where I am and what I'm doing.
And so what I'm trying to do is live a balanced life in general.
And I work to ensure that creative things are very much a part of it.
That can be making things, but that can also be going to see things.
I think it's very important for people to take time off to look at art, see theater, whatever your thing is.
I think you need to engage with something that challenges your brain in a way that doesn't challenge you every single day.
So that you see the world differently.
I have many, many ideas sitting in places they don't expect to have ideas.
