Bring Your Vacation to Work

Fresh out of ideas at work?

Here’s a solution – take a vacation.

“The most creative, innovative executives take leisure travel on purpose. It’s not just for R&R, it’s for I&R – innovation and re-creation,” says AmyK Hutchens,  intelligence activist and  founder of her eponymous company.

Planning your inspirational travel can also be unconventional.

If you’re in the food industry, don’t just stick to checking out restaurants. “Visit the markets behind the scenes. Take an expedition out to sea to the origins of your fish dish du jour,” says Hutchens. “Or the chocolatier who produces your pièce de résistance.”

Only 57 percent of U.S. employees use up all their entitled vacations days.

And 12 percent of workers report feeling guilty if they aren’t at work, according to this survey.

How do you beat your conscience? Take a vacation that increases idea generation. Step out of your daily routine to stimulate new thinking.

“Executives who feel guilty about getting away can tell themselves their next trip may just spark their most profitable idea to date,” says Hutchens.

It’s even biological! Theta waves are connections in your brain that link ideas that were formerly spread out. “In a theta state, brain cells never before connected find each other for the first time. Eureka! A new idea is born!” says Hutchens.

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By Ruchika Tulshyan

“Vacation used to be a luxury, but in today’s world it has become a necessity.”
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