Work & Life Are Not Opposing Forces | Simon Sinek at LinkedIn Speaker Series 2019

I'm actually quite good about taking time for myself where I disconnect from everything you know I'm a great believer you know when people take vacation but they're online the whole time that's not a vacation that's telecommuting from a beach right and so one could argue that in our modern day and age we actually take zero vacation and we have zero evenings and zero weakness and I think that's incredibly unhealthy and so as a company and as an individual we're pretty good like 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 you know 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 cuz I'm on vacation and quite frankly any anybody who goes to a retreat or an off-site or it takes a day off and checks in on a regular basis nothing 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 you know so so I'm really good when I decide to disconnect to completely disconnect from work and I I i understand that ideas I I recognize that you know we talk about work-life balance you know work in life are not opposing forces its balance is the wrong analogy you know I'm the same person at home as I am at work it's just different clothes in a different table I sit at right and so and so what I try and do is recognize that it's all my life and there's no difference and 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 oh that oh 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 you know do whatever your where your thing is I think need to engage with something that challenges your brain in a way that it 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 [Music]

Channel: Simon Sinek

Views: 191,277

Keywords: simon sinek, sinek simon, sinek, start with why, the why, inspiration, motivation, find purpose, find why, leader, leadership, job, career, how to, learn to lead

Id: pI2j8iXz8hs

Length: 2min 30sec (150 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 29 2019