As always, this course teaches me so much more than I could have dreamed it would. One of the more interesting things this week comes from the words of Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience at Google.
She explains that Google has a unique policy of giving their employees one day a week--Friday--to work on whatever project they would like to work on. This might seem like a dangerous way to manage their productivity, as undisciplined human nature tends to influence a person to find anything else to do but what they is supposed to do, when given unstructured time.
However, by her own estimation, Mayer found that fifty percent (50%) of what Google produced in terms of new launches came from the efforts spent in those "twenty percent" hours. The reasoning behind this, of course, is that when a person has something to work on that they are passionate about, they are more likely to give their best effort and make the most breakthroughs.
All this is largely in preface to the point that, whatever our dreams may be, and however hard it might be to achieve them, the results--as well as the personal growth--will be well worth the effort.
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