On Aug 1, I woke up and didn’t want to get out of bed.I felt…blank. Hollowed out. I’d felt this way for months.I couldn’t enjoy anything.I didn’t care about work.I didn’t want to talk to anyone.I wasn’t necessarily depressed. Objectively life was amazing...

8月1日，我醒来后不想下床。我感到......一片空白。被掏空了。我有这种感觉已经好几个月了。我不能享受任何东西，我不关心工作，我不想和任何人说话。我不一定是抑郁症。客观的来看生活让我感到惊讶……

It felt like an inability to feel pleasure.It didn’t add up. Life was good… Great even.I had experienced a lot of amazing personal and work highs over the past year.My kids were happy and healthy through COVID.My marriage was stronger than ever...

这感觉就像无法感受到快乐一样。生活是美好的......甚至是伟大的。在过去的一年里，我经历了很多令人惊奇的个人和工作上的高潮。

I was meeting an endless string of interesting people.I got to work with some of my business heroes.Chris and I took our first company public.We bought a company we’d admired for years.But despite all this, I felt like I had zero gas in the tank.

我遇到了一连串有趣的人。我得到了与我的一些商业大咖合作的机会。克里斯和我把我们的第一家公司上市了。我们买了一家我们欣赏了多年的公司。

It didn’t matter what the win was, nothing made me feel good anymore.I’d jump from email to email, trying to find the RIGHT thing to work on.I’d jump from TV show to TV show trying to find the PERFECT thing to watch.

我从一个电子邮件跳到另一个电子邮件，试图找到正确的事情来做。我从一个电视节目跳到另一个电视节目，试图找到完美的节目来看。

I’d skip from book to book trying to find something that would SCRATCH THAT ITCH.But…nothing. None of the usual excitement and motivation. No hit.I thought maybe I was having a midlife crisis. I couldn’t figure it out.So, I decided to take August off.

我从一本书跳到另一本书，试图找到能挠痒痒的东西。但是......什么都没有。没有通常的兴奋和动力。我想也许我遇到了中年危机。我搞不清楚。所以，我决定8月休息。

I didn’t know what else to do.For the first time in 15 years, I fully checked out.I put up a vacation auto responder, delegated my email to my assistant, and told her to only call me in an emergency.

我不知道还能做什么。15年来第一次，我完全退出了。我设置了一个假期自动应答器，把我的电子邮件委托给我的助理，并告诉她只有在紧急情况下才给我打电话。

I put my phone in a drawer and took off to our summer cabin for an extended vacation.These are the rules I made for myself:No work, no Twitter, no email, no news, no phone calls, no speaking to employees or business partners, no podcasts, no audiobooks, no music.

我把我的手机放在抽屉里，然后去我们的夏日小屋度长假。这些是我为自己制定的规则：没有工作，没有Twitter，没有电子邮件，没有新闻，没有电话，不与员工或商业伙伴交谈，没有播客，没有有声读物，没有音乐。