Is There a Time Scale of Mindfulness?

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There are stages to that that you can achieve with practice, where you can get deeper and deeper into that state of mind. I am going to say that though i feel incredibly lucky and very privileged to be able to take a month off, it's the worst time scale. And so i do thinkat that is interesting, and maybe a way to look at the length of braks as as a guide for what you're ging to do.

Taking a break from work can look 1,000 different ways: You could learn how to make homemade pasta; you could visit five new countries; you could spend sunup to sundown swinging in a hammock. What constitutes a break should fit your specific context and needs. And in this way, taking a true, you-shaped vacation—for a week, a month, or even longer—dips into org design knowledge and territory.

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans reflect on their recent breaks and what they learned, including:

The signs and signals that tell us when it’s time to take a break
Why breaks are important and how they contribute to system-wide resilience
How taking time off in a self-managing system can look and feel different than in a more traditional one
Parsing the key differences between a break, a trip, and a vacation
How to think about and reimagine the OS of your next vacation

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