The Art of Taking a Good Sabbatical

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For Robin Kwong, taking a sabbatical from journalism was a chance to refresh himself in the waters of culture, art and thought.

“So, how was your sabbatical?”

The short answer is: “Yeah, pretty good.”

The long answer is the rest of this post.

Three things a sabbatical is good for

I went into my sabbatical thinking: “Finally. Now that I don’t have to go into the office for the next six weeks, I’m going to get so much done.”

But now that it is drawing to an end, I realise that’s not really what sabbaticals are for at all. Work is for producing output; sabbaticals are for digesting input.

What I’ve learnt is that there are three things I could usefully do to ‘digest input’ during a sabbatical:



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