Are the Most Refreshing Vacations "Skillcations"?

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🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. I'm going to talk about something I think is fascinating today, totally fascinating,
0:33.7	and that's your idea of a vacation.
0:40.3	A lot of you want to take a vacation because you think, oh,
0:42.3	I'm going to refresh myself.
0:46.3	I'm just going to sit by water,
0:48.3	be it an ocean, a lake, a river, a pool,
0:53.3	put my feet up, read trash novels, and after that week, I'll be
0:58.7	revving to go, refreshed, my brain will be happy, and I'll go back to work and be just a killer.
1:08.3	Yeah, have you realized that generally you say after a vacation, I need a vacation to get over the vacation?
1:16.9	Because it might be good if you're really physically, mentally tired to have a day or two where you're a vegetable, but it's not really the way our brains prefer to refresh.
1:31.7	They like to go to something.
1:33.7	Our brain cells like to go to something new.
1:37.4	My first week-long vacation of this year,
1:42.3	I'm spending half of it in Ohio learning incredibly better skills in leather work.
1:53.8	My newest, well, it's not so new. I think we're a year and a half now working into it, and I work at it.
2:04.2	When I'm very, very tired, not just for vacation, but say on a weekend or on a Thursday,
2:11.0	my brain is just tired.
2:13.3	The workout was tough.
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