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Key takeaways from How to Use All Your Vacation — And Really Unplug

A conversation with psychologist Art Markman and associate professor Kaitlin Woolley on why we need to take breaks more than ever.

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But if you can think about the leisure time as helping you be better at your job, helping you be more creative, helping you build your even interpersonal skills at work because you’ve had time off, and you can come back and reapproach the problems from a different perspective, or even helping you to maintain your interest in your love for your job.

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