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I don't agree with everything Jeff Bezos says, but the idea of "work-life integration" really hits the mark.

A startup as a "marathon, not a sprint" really means it's a founder's job to keep themselves in top mental, physical, and emotional shape, just like a world-class athlete.

No one told me this when I embarked on the startup journey, so I had to learn it the hard way.

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I've discovered later than I should that for me, I need at least a two week break from time to time.

I need actual holiday where I don't answer emails or even do what I used to consider the minimum required. From an outside perspective, that's always been obvious to me and I've always understood that people need it, I just never applied it to myself.

Inadvertently holiday time is often when my best ideas come.

> Inadvertently holiday time is often when my best ideas come.

So you are still thinking about work? My best ideas come during work. During vacation, I don't think of anything work related but mostly philosophizing.

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