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If I look at my cycle, seven years, one year sabbatical, it's 12.5 percent of my time.
看看我的周期，干七年，休一年，是我百分之12.5的時間。
And if I look at companies that are actually more successful than mine,
看看比我更成功的公司，
3M since the 1930s is giving all their engineers 15 percent to pursue whatever they want.
3M公司自20世紀30年代起，讓所有的工程師花百分之十五工作時間做他們自己想做的事。
There is some good successes. Scotch tape came out of this program,
有些很成功的例子。思高牌膠帶就是這個公司政策下的產物，
as well as Art Fry developed sticky notes from during his personal time for 3M.
還有Art Fry研制的不干膠貼紙，也是他利用私人時間為3M發明的。
Google, of course, very famously gives 20 percent for their software engineers to pursue their own personal projects.
谷歌，眾人皆知，給他們的軟件工程師百分之二十的時間去做他們自己想做的項目。
Anybody in here has actually ever conducted a sabbatical? That's about five percent of everybody.
聽眾里有沒有人嘗試過修長假呢？大概百分之五吧。
So I'm not sure if you saw your neighbor putting their hand up. Talk to them about if it was successful or not.
坐你身邊的人舉手了嗎。請和他們聊聊，看他們的休假是否成功。
I've found that finding out about what I'm going to like in the future,
我發現，探討我未來想做的事，
my very best way is to talk to people who have actually done it much better than myself envisioning it.
最佳的辦法是與做過的人談談，那比自己空想要更有效。
When I had the idea of doing one, the process was I made the decision and I put it into my daily planner book.
當我想到一個好主意時，我便把決定寫在日計劃本里。
And then I told as many, many people as I possibly could about it so that there was no way that I could chicken out later on.
然后我告訴很多很多的人，越多越好，好等我日后不會輕易知難而退。
