Really, it is more the attitude we take toward our work that tires us than the work itself.

If we could only learn that and realize it as a practical fact, it would save a great deal of unnecessary suffering and even illness.
We do not need to play vacation all the time, of course.

The game might get stale then and lose its power.

If we play it for two or three days, whenever we get so tired that it seems as if we could not bear it--play it just long enough to lift ourselves out of the rut--then we can "go to work again" until we need another vacation.
We need not be afraid nor ashamed to bring back that childlike tendency--it will be of very great use to our mature minds.
If we try to play the vacation game, it is wiser to say nothing about it.

It is not a game that we can be sure of sharing profitably either to ourselves or to others.
If you find it works, and give the secret to a friend, tell her to play it without mentioning it to you, even though she shares your work and is sitting in the next chair to you.
Another most healthy process of resting while you work is by means of lowering the pressure.
Suppose you were an engine, whose normal pressure was six hundred pounds, we will say.