You (actually do) need a vacation

A recent meta-analysis found that the immediate effects of a vacation are more long-lasting and profound than previously believed. As long as you focus on two things.

Last week in Maine, ©Townsend Davis

My first corporate job came with two weeks of vacation and a salary so small that taking an actual vacation in a place that wasn’t my parents’ house or my cramped apartment was out of the question. I’d just moved back to the U.S. after four years of working in Paris, France: a place where every citizen has the right to…