Solomon: Downtime Is Essential Intellectual Nourishment, Not Wasted Time
Jeffrey Solomon · Jeffrey Solomon – Vision, Tenacity, and Empathy (Capital Allocators, EP.09) · May 30, 2017 · at 50:10
Jeffrey Solomon, President of Cowen Group, explains to Ted Seides how his perspective on relaxation and personal downtime shifted in his fifties.
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“I used to think that was a waste of time. If I'm not doing something, I'm wasting time. And the reality is, like, watching a TV show and vegging, there's something really relaxing about that. Sitting up back and smoking a cigar and thinking, Forty-year-old me would be like, why are you wasting time? There's tons of stuff to do, and the fifty-year-old, one-year-old me is like, wow, I can't wait to do that, because I have so many things I want to think about with the business, with my life, with my kids, with my wife, and I treasure that. So I don't think I waste time. I just think I choose to do things to nourish myself, intellectually or spiritually.”
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