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you know, in the middle of August, in Italy where Calista and I live for three and a half years. Well, she was the ambassador to the Vatican.
Everything stops, I mean, stops, friend of ours just wrote that her favorite restaurant for lunch will be closed for three weeks.
Oh, and her favorite restaurant for breakfast will be closed for three weeks. And oh, even more, her hairdresser, who will be gone for three weeks. The concept of the August vacation is sacred in large parts of Europe sacred in France, Germany, I once talked to an American manager of a large company that was owned by a German company, who said they can’t get any decisions in August, because people literally are gone. And they refuse to break their vacation over some trivial crisis. Very different.
I once told my granddaughter, that you have to recognize that
Americans live to work. Italians work to live.
And they’re just profoundly different approaches. So as we are in the middle of August, and it’s hot, and you’re wondering what you’re doing, you will pretend to be a European for a few days.
Take some time off. Don’t look at your email. Don’t answer your texts. Don’t pick up the phone, just relax. You know, go sit by a pool,
go out and swing a golf club, hang out at a couple of nice restaurants,
and pretend you’re European. And you’re actually enjoying life instead of just working. You’ll find it really interesting, a little scary.
Because if you do it long enough, you’re going to think, Huh, I could actually live like this. And of course, that is exactly how the Europeans live.
The result is they have less income, less economic growth. They are poorer than we are and the gap is getting bigger over time.
But on the other hand, they find life endlessly fascinating.
And they’re prepared to sit around local cafe and drink wine for hours at a time and talk about how much they fascinate themselves.
So try a little bit of being European
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