Step Out. Step Up.
A good amount of attention has been paid to Stefan Sagmeister – on the social media sites, including the TED community – for his inspiring (although not unique, as we on this site know) year-long sabbaticals that he takes every seven years.
The famous designer has taken two year-long sabbaticals. The first was in 2001 at [...]
In 2006, then-struggling American indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon left North Carolina with a broken heart and retreated to his father’s remote cabin in Northwestern Wisconsin. There, he recorded the songs that would become Bon Iver’s debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, playing all the instruments himself. In isolation, Vernon says, he was able [...]
How long will you live? Stop dithering and find out.
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No matter how old or busy you are, you’ll anticipate that number popping up at the end – the one that tells you (based on genetics, health, stress, etc.,) how [...]
“Happiness” was the topic of discussion among seven friends this past Sunday. We were eating breakfast around a table in a cabin in the middle of North Carolina’s Nantahala National Forest. Four men, three women. Three couples: one married nary a month; another to be married soon; the third – talking about it. And an [...]
Who will do your work while you’re away on sabbatical? While some people plan carefully for this aspect of a successful career sabbatical, just as many don’t.
As a result, here are some of the worst things people will have to say about you in your absence:He just dumped his work on us without much [...]
We’re often asked about the staying power of sabbaticals. Can a sabbatical experience change a person? Yes. How long will the person be different? Forever and ever.
Not every sabbatical holds this status. If you lolly around and fritter away the time doing stuff that doesn’t mean very much to you, you’ll stay about the [...]