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A CEO's "quiet time"
In a development that would have surprised my 20-something self, had he foreseen it, I now do yoga a couple of times a week. This is partly to shake off the feeling of ADD caused by Web surfing, answering emails, checking my Palm, and the general freneticism of life. Okay, I watch the Red Sox simultaneously, but it's a start. And baseball has its own Zen qualities.
Robert Iger, the C.E.O. of Disney, has a somewhat different idea about how to counterbalance the frenzy of the working day:
I get up at 4:30 every morning. I like the quiet time. [my emphasis] It's a time I can recharge my batteries a bit. I exercise and I clear my head and I catch up on the world. I read papers. I look at e-mail. I surf the Web. I watch a little TV, all at the same time. I call it my quiet time but I'm already multitasking. I love listening to music, so I'll do that in the morning, too, when I'm exercising and watching the news.
Let's let humorist Andy Borowitz take it from there.
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