Take a Bill Gates-Style "Think Week" to Recharge Your Thinking

  A couple of years ago, I heard a statistic that having a Blackberry is equivalent to smoking two joints because you are always being interrupted, and never really "here". Just think about that for a second.

I didn't need an entire second to go "errrr what?" Since when is that any sort of a 'statistic'?

Although I love the idea, it would seem difficult for most of us to pry away from our family and go somewhere for a week to do this. It might be easier to send them off for a week, but with a wife who doesn't feel that she gets enough of my time, even that wouldn't be easy.

Does it work so well for Bill Gates? Didn't he somehow miss the Internet?