NEWS: Science Says You Should Take More Vacation Days
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NEWS: Science Says You Should Take More Vacation Days
It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
(if in fact you take vacations)?
Neil Fiore • The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
Reduce Stress
Have low amounts of stress.
It’s a well known and heavily researched fact that chronic stress leads to inflammation and serves as the foundation for nearly every age-related disease. Centenarians in most of the world’s longevity hotspots don’t avoid stress but do have built-in systems that allow them to manage stress on a daily basis.
... See moreBut I do think we should ask if we suffer from the illusion that being busy is virtuous. And when we’re relaxing how are we relaxing? If travel ends up being stressful then we have to reevaluate where we’re going and why.