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까마귀 날자 배떨어진다고… 하필 이 블로그를 만들고, 매일 잘 해 보겠다고 결심하자마자 그럴 시간이 너무 없어지네요.. 내일 저녁에는 무슨 일이 있어도 시간을 내겠습니다. 번역놀이도 그렇고…

계속 읽고 있는 앨런 웨버는 Fast Company에서 인터뷰하는 모든 CEO들에게 다음의 두 가지 질문을 던진다고 합니다.

1. What gets you up in the morning?
2. What keeps you up at night?

뭐, 사실 그거나 그거나… 불행히도 대부분의 사람들은(미국인의 절반) 일어나야하기때문에, 돈을 벌어야 하기 때문에, 다른 대책이 없어서, 아무 생각없이 일어난다는군요. 두 번째 질문에 대해서… 그런 사람들은 왜 깨어 있을까요? 아침에 일어날 이유가 없어서…

What Keeps You Up at Night? Here again America seems a troubled place. Like the statistic on Americans who hate their jobs, the data on how many Americans take sleeping pills every night are a little hard to pin down. The best estimate is at least 25 percent of Americans can’t sleep at night without chemical help. It makes you wonder what keeps them at night. Maybe it’s linked to the 50 percent who hate their jobs: they can’t sleep because they have nothing to get up for.
I like the question “What keeps you up at night?” because it’s a chance for leaders to be honest. Much of what preoccupies men and women in positions of responsibility is of little long-term importance. Rarely do they get a chance to reflect on the things that really matter to the company’s long-term viability. Business leaders who care deeply about matters of community and social change find day-to-day concerns crowding out broader issues. The things that keep leaders up at night, I’ve found, are the matters that never seem to find the time or place for serious engagement in the course of an ordinary workday. And, I’ve found, leaders genuinely believe there are things worth caring about so much, they do keep you up at night.
We all want to do work that excites us. We want to care about things that concern us. (The Rule of Thumb, pp. 114 -5)

잠도 안오는데, 앨런 와츠가 시키는 대로 종이를 꺼내 놓고, 자기가 아침에 일어나는 이유, 밤에 잠들지 못하는 이유를 적어 보세요. 답이 마음에 안들면, 버리고 다시 적어 보세요. 마음에 드는 답이 나올 때까지… 그리고,

Then read your two answers out loud to yourself. If you like them – if they give you a sense of purpose and direction – congratulations! Use them as your compass, checking from time to time to see if they’re still true.
If you don’t like one or both of your answers, it opens up a new question: what are you going to do about it?
Because whatever your answers are, you’re spending almost two thousand hours a year of your life doing it. That makes it worthwhile to come up with answers you can not only live with but also live for. (p. 115)

내일은 답이 마음에 들지 않으면 어떻게 할지에 대해서 (다른 책에서) 읽은 내용을 써 보겠습니다. 물론! 먼저 번역놀이 숙제부터 끝내 놓고…