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In 2013, the remaining hacker Marcel Lazzer cracked open email accounts belonging to the members of George

W Bush's family.

And inside, Lazzer found paintings by the former president of animals, especially dogs,

still life, a golf course, even some very curious self-portraits. Until Lhasa released the images to the media, no one knew about Bush's

hobby. But Bush wasn't alone in his past time. President's Jimmy Carter, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower all painted.

Though Eisenhower's doctor suggested the hobby to relieve stress, his real inspiration was

another avid amateur amateur Winston Churchill.

We should fight on the beaches,

we should fight on the landing grounds.

Churchill's great strength, according to the historian Paul Johnson,

was his power of relaxation, and painting

was a big part of that power.

He took up the hobby during a bleak time in his career and kept at it the rest of his life,

even through the worst of the Second World War.

As Johnson concludes, the balance he maintained between flat-out work and creative and restorative leisure is worth

study by anyone holding a top position. Well that's sound advice but let's be

honest most of us aren't listening.

According to Gallup, the average American work week is closer to 50 hours and 40,

and one in five works 60 hours or more. Now you might

be tempted to think it's blue-collar workers who clock the longest shifts, but

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