The Secret Sauce

Taking a vacation every once in a while is good for you and will help benefit you in a variety of different ways. One such man, author [Tony] Schwartz wrote “More Vacation Is the Secret Sauce,” published in 2012 in the Harvard Business Review, he argues that you should take vacation every time you’re given the opportunity, it will bump up your work ethic, you will get more work done, and also has proven to be healthier for you. Schwartz begins by building credibility with a personal experience and providing statistics to prove his argument. In Schwartz’s article he uses logical appeals, emotional appeals, and use of exemplification to support his argument that vacation benefits us and is well needed for us. In Schwartz’s article he begins with a personal experience, he writes about how he hadn’t taken a vacation in years and finally he took one once he was given the opportunity. While taking this vacation Schwartz would rarely check his emails and never responded to his emails. He enjoyed his vacation with walks on the beach and spending time with his family. In this vacation Schwartz was in hope that he would brew up some new thoughts to help with some of the things he was working on in his workplace. Few weeks in he would read books that correlated with work and found out how helpful the vacation was to him. Towards the end of the article he …show more content…
Schwartz uses a study and expert opinions to support his claim, and he uses personal examples to prove that vacation benefited him to be in a healthier state, which clearly shows that he has experienced this study