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Designer Stefan Sagmeister takes a year-long sabbatical every seven years to recharge his creativity. The concept for mainstream journalists isn't really practical, but the broader concept of "personal use" time just might be. He notes highly successful companies such as Google and 3M give their engineers personal time, out of which the Post-It note was born. What would our lives be like without the sticky note? What could you accomplish at your organization with a few dedicated breaks from the daily deadline grind? And if you're doing it already, what success stories can you share?

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This is Stefan Sagmeister’s talk at a TED (nonprofit, ideas worth sharing) event in July 2009 where he discusses taking a year-long sabbatical, out of which he says he generated seven years’ worth of projects for his design company.

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Stefan Sagmeister notes:

25 years learning
40 years working
15 years for retirement

And that assumes we all live until we’re 80. With the bulk of our lives spent working, are we getting the most out of it? Will you look back on those 40 years as productive, rewarding, fulfilling? If your answer right now is “no” what can you do about it?