When even the billionaires start arguing against work, you know we've gone way too fucking far.
“You are not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack,” a wistful Gates told the forestry and engineering graduates of Northern Arizona University (NAU) over the weekend in a commencement speech, which he later published to his personal blog, Gates Notes. “When I was your age, I didn't believe in vacations. I didn't believe in weekends. I pushed everyone around me to work very long hours.”
“In the early days of Microsoft, my office overlooked the parking lot — and I would keep track of who was leaving early and staying late.”
Intense! But as Gates admitted shortly thereafter, his eyes-on-the-parking-lot level of intensity may not have been entirely healthy — not for him, and definitely not for the people around him.
“But as I got older — and especially once I became a father — I realized there is more to life than work,” Gates added. “Don't wait as long as I did to learn this lesson. Take time to nurture your relationships, to celebrate your successes, and to recover from your losses.”
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