Guy Winch

Like, you know, where's the part of you that's funny or goofy or irreverent or whatever the thing is that you don't get to express during the workday?

Who are the people in your life?

that bring that out of you that you don't have time for anymore.

It's not the people you don't have time for.

It's aspects of yourself that you are allowing to wither.

And so you want to give oxygen to those parts of yourself, of your personality, of your identity, of your life that don't get an expression during the workday.

That's what's going to fulfill you.

That's what's going to create some kind of resistance to stress and burnout because there's another part of your life that's robust enough.

Yes.

Not just your work.

It's fine to be devoted to work.

Most of us are.

But it's not.

I say to people, if work was taken away tomorrow, who would you be?

Who are you if not work?

And a lot of people struggle with that question.

It's a super provocative question.

Well, there's a whole science about vacations, actually, and how to make them restorative.

Shorter vacations are better because the benefits of a vacation start to fade after a week.

So if you're taking two or three weeks at once, you're kind of missing out on the benefit of it.