Protect the sacred space of leisure from being contaminated by work

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Protect the sacred space of leisure from being contaminated by work

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Gloria Mark, a leading researcher on attention and distraction and University of California informatics professor, warns us to beware of leisure contamination: The tendency while taking a break to still be wrestling with work and family responsibilities. It’s a mental spillover of stress into those rare moments that are meant to be restful.

“Psychological detachment – fully detaching from stressors during leisure time – is crucial for recovery from stress. But achieving it in our always-connected, always-on, busy culture is getting harder and harder to do,” she writes on her Subs