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This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from Design Observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Stefan Sogmeister, one of today's most influential graphic designers about the film he's making on happiness and about his practice of taking time off

every seven years. I learned in the first sabbatical that it's maybe the best strategy that I

ever came up with to make sure that what I do remains a calling and doesn't deteriorate

into a job or into a career.

Here's Debbie Millman, first with a little story.

Three things happened when I turned 30.

I got divorced.

I quit my job, and I moved out of the studio apartment I had shared with my husband.

Luckily, I also found a good therapist and consequently spent

the next year frequenting her office, freelancing, and then moving yet again, after the wretched

discovery that my new apartment was hopelessly infested with fleas. After several failed attempts

to remove them, my exterminator convinced me that the only way to rid

my new home of the most insidious insect known to man was to burn the entire 100-year-old building

down to the ground. I decided a more prudent path would be to move. The day I left was a dark one. I was cranky and hung over,

and bitter that my life seemed so unwieldy and unsatisfying. As I passed a hair rush through the

bird's nest on top of my head, I realized that at that very moment I had no home, no husband,

and no job. And I was 30. I was over the hill.

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