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How to Become a Design Genius: Take Time Off. Lots of It.
- buugs 17y agoIt isn't really time off if you are working is it? It is time spent thinking and learning and depending on your life outside work this could be accomplished without taking time off and just working less.
- cracki 17y agoworking less still means you think about work, which distracts from thinking about other things.
- jwesley 17y agoGood link, terrible headline. The link us an interesting video about the benefits of taking a year long sabbatical every seven years, but it doesn't claim that the sabbatical is what made Stefan Sagmeister a design genius. He was insanely talented before he started taking sabbaticals, and they just made him more productive.
- alabut 17y agoMaybe a better title would've been - How To Stay A Design Genius. I didn't see a lot of connection between his post-sabbatical projects and the year that he spent off, which is fine - the main benefit seemed to be a rejuvenation of his love for the craft. I've thought about doing something similar for a long time now, probably because my dad was a prof and some of my best childhood memories are from spending copious amounts of time abroad.
- lsternlicht 17y agohttp://www.sagmeister.com/index.html http://www.sagmeister.com/index.html ... makes me feel nauseous/dizzy
- psadauskas 17y agoResizes the browser, too. Why would anyone do that in 2009?
- jodrellblank 17y agoWhy would any browser let it in 2009? Dear browser, you are my electronic advocate, not the website's. Act in my interest, not someone elses.
- kirubakaran 17y agoFirefox preferences -> Content -> Javascript|Advanced ; uncheck whatever you want to disallow. You probably could make similar change in other browsers.
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- ujjwalg 17y agoI think he is trying to be sarcastic.
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- HelenL14 17y agoI think it's less about vacation time/'time off' and more about just disconnecting from your normal routine (often times fairly rigid as we're natural creatures of habit)...and giving yourself the freedom to explore different paths/options/ideas.
- angstrom 17y agoI definitely see the value in that and it goes for any career where creativity and insight is important. Taking the time to step back, disengage and then reengage with new ideas and perspectives can be very valuable. But like he said, it needs goals and structure to make sure you accomplish that, otherwise, you're just screwing off.
- nvictor 17y agoplease link to TED directly.
- rw 17y agoThis summary took me 1 minute to read, not ~20. It's worth the indirection.
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- mebigfatguy 17y agoSpoken like a true rich pompous azz
- firefalcon 17y agoI just afraid to take 1 year vacation. I will have a constant feeling that my business will be ruined this year...
- zeynel1 17y ago"We named our inkjet printer Sagmeister. Coincidentally, it stops working periodically." http://twitter.com/andrewcmyk http://twitter.com/andrewcmyk