S02E01 The Do You Need A Break Episode

The Leader Learner Podcast

Check-In Question:

• Who is the most likeable person that you know?

Big Ideas:

• Taking breaks - why we do it, why we don't, etc
• Real vacation, no work AND vacation, but thinking about work
• Taking a break means NOT thinking about work
• Having some location separation between work and home
• Can't compartmentalize work and personal life
• Is separating work and home life valid anymore?
• Communication between work and home so the pressure doesn't build
• Setting permeable boundaries
• Breaks to process what just happened and what might happen next
• Creating space to think deeply
• Distinction between taking breaks and creating space
• Breaks having no purpose, spaces having purpose
• Are we taking breaks to be lost in thought?
• Do we need to give space for our brains to breathe?
• Finding likeable moments in the everyday
• Travail (work in French) comes from a word related to torture
• Create a life you don't need to take a break from
• Bill Gates and his "Think Week"
• How our mindset affects our experiences
• Mindset matters to a point, but if your basic needs aren't being met, it only matters up to a point
• Freedom outside the pressures.
• Cultural components of taking breaks
• Drivers to what success looks shifts among cultures
• What's best for me at this moment?
• Creating breaks allow us to create
• Covid allowed people to see how creating new spaces was good for them
• How shift away from the idea that taking breaks is a luxury?
• Accepting what is now, but not necessarily being content with it
• "The opposite of play is not work, it's depression."
• So much of what we do is purpose/results oriented, and breaks seem purposeless

Question for Listeners:

• Why do you take breaks? How?

References:

• Severance Series
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown

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