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you want to return to your true self. It
can be a physical place, like the path
beside the Richelieu River, or a temporal
one, like the quiet breaks you plan
between sales calls. It can mean canceling
your social plans on the weekend
before a big meeting at work, practicing
yoga or meditation, or choosing e-
mail over an in-person meeting. (Even
Victorian ladies, whose job effectively
was to be available to friends and family,
were expected to withdraw for a
rest each afternoon.)
You choose a restorative niche when
you close the door to your private office
(if you’re lucky enough to have
one) in between meetings. You can
even create a restorative niche during a
meeting, by carefully selecting where
you sit, and when and how you participate.
In his memoir In an Uncertain
World, Robert Rubin, the treasury
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