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Our mind is always surprising, and if we know its idiosyncrasies and know how to use it to our advantage, we will never be bored.<\/p>\n

Let’s take summer and summer vacation as an example. There are some people saying we are caught in an endless “rat race”: we work a whole year just to be able to go on a 1\u20132-week summer vacation, from which we come back even more tired. Yes, it may be so, I admit. It can be like that when you set yourself up for it, when you can\u2019t find not even a tiny sense of meaning in your work and when you put a lot of pressure on those few days off to bring you everything you’ve been missing for a whole year.<\/p>\n

But there are other ways to see your summer vacation (without meeting extraordinary conditions, like \u201cbeing a multimillionaire on a yacht\u201d). The not-so-secret equation is all about anticipation and a flexible mindset.<\/p>\n

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  1. First, holidays are about anticipation<\/em><\/strong>. For our brains, a vacation begins from the moment we start thinking about the free days, looking for destinations, doing the “research” (where we’re staying, what we want to do there, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Through planning, we have a goal to pin our hopes on. There is a significant number of studies showing that when we put in the effort and learn to delay gratification, the reward we receive in the end is experienced as more valuable.<\/p>\n

    The same goes for planning a trip, which can bring us more joy than the vacation itself. It happens so because authentic joy is an active process, not a passive one<\/em>: when we prepare for a vacation, we look for accommodation, we look for the places we will visit, the restaurants we would like to go to, we watch documentaries, etc., that is our brain gets involved in a very concrete learning process. In this immersive process, our brain releases serotonin, and endorphins, as well as dopamine, and this cocktail of hormones makes us feel happy.<\/p>\n

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    1. The flexible mindset<\/em><\/strong> refers in this context to adjusting to reality and understanding that the plane delay that is irritating us now or the accommodation that is not quite perfect does not mean the vacation. Vacation is an adventure – it doesn’t have to be perfect. When things don’t go exactly as planned, we can cling to the inconvenience and grumble on for days, or we can take a step back and look at things with humor. In other words, if you’re preparing for your vacation, it’s a good idea to imagine the pleasant things to come, but don’t get hung up on the details. Vacations are exactly what we make them be.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Have a happy vacation (at home or elsewhere), it is still summertime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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