When i've taken like, a three month break, i gav fantse, right, i'm ready to do something. One or two weeks is just, it's a pause button. Ye, a month is the worst of both worlds. Egen, i loved it, and i had a perfect month. Yet i cannot, yet, i cannot find my motivation. I'm in weak too, of being back. And truly, i'm just like, ohi don't want to do anything, because i was so in it. It's very conceivable that one menth is a terrible time y. Too long to be a short one, and too short to be a long
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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