The Sabbatical: Inward Learning

There are many times over the course of our lives when sabbaticals can be especially beneficial—including before college or grad school, while building families in our 30s and 40s, after moments of great loss, in pre- or early-retirement, and, more generally, for people who are thinking about gap years, when they’re taking a year off from routine, and they’re still learning, but they’re doing it in a very different way—they’re doing it more inwardly.