May 2011
Beginner to intermediate
62 pages
1h 48m
English
by Peter Bregman
I’m going on vacation with my family in a few weeks, and I’m anxious.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I adore my family and the time we spend together. And that includes stuff like changing diapers and putting groggy kids back to bed at 4 AM. Fun or not, I treasure it.
Still, vacation makes me anxious because I know I’ll feel torn. When I’m not working, I’ll feel like I should be, and when I am, I’ll feel like I shouldn’t be.
Some will accuse me of being a workaholic. But it’s not just that, and it’s not just me. We live in a world in which we’re expected to be available all the time for almost any reason. Worse, we expect it from ourselves.
Leashed to our technology, we find it harder to spend ...
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