Simon Sinek argues that work and life aren't opposing forces but parts of the same whole. He emphasizes disconnecting from work and making time for creative activities to maintain balance and sustain long-term performance.
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.
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 off site 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.
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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.
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. What I'm trying to do is live a balanced life in general. 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. It.
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