For too many highly intelligent working men, home represents dullness and complaints—from an over-dependent wife who will not gather courage to make her own life.

对于很多高智商的工作男性来说，家庭意味着乏味和抱怨，这种感觉往往来自于一个依赖性过强的妻子，她没有勇气过自己的生活。

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And as my wife always reminds me when I complain that I'm working too hard, she says, you volunteered for this job.(Laughter.)

正如我夫人经常提醒我说的，有时候我抱怨工作太忙了，她经常提醒我说：你是自己找的这份工作。

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Brad Feld, founder of VC firm Foundry Group, started scheduling regular vacations after his wife, Amy Batchelor, almost dumped him for working during an entire weekend trip.

布拉德·菲尔德是风险投资公司Foundry集团的创始人，有一次周末旅行时，他全程只顾工作，他的妻子艾米•巴切勒差点儿和他闹离婚。

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After five years working for Great Experiment, he and his wife, Stephanie, had saved just enough money to buy a big fixer-upper in Oak Park, without being able to fix it up.

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"I'd recently lost my wife and working with Brendan was a release valve for me, " he says.

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He is still recounting his clinical findings - in the style of his The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - and is currently working on two books.

BBC: Oliver Sacks on science, art and awakening the brain