[throwawaysea]

My feeling is that it takes a longer period of time to “unlock” the actual vacation stage if you’ve been at it for a while and have accumulated mental baggage. Maybe that’s burn out, I’m not sure. But I think there’s a negative period you have to get past before you are content and productive without work being that productive outlet. Another part of all this is that social media in particular has eroded our ability to sit still and be content. That needs its own detox process.