“An 8-hour workday only makes sense if you’re screwing in widgets on an assembly line.”
Why the ‘new’ workday should be less than 4 hours.
“An 8-hour workday only makes sense if you’re screwing in widgets on an assembly line.” — Jessica Stillman
This, according to a new book “Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less” written by Alex Pang.
In his book, he points out that many of our great historic scholars — like Charles Darwin and Thomas Jefferson — never overworked their creative brains.
This isn’t to say they never worked more than 4 hours a day. But they rarely used their creative capacity for more than 4 hours of knowledge-based hustle.
“The man who works so moderately as to be able to work constantly not only preserves his health the longest but, in the course of the year, executes the greatest quantity of work.” — Adam Smith
There’s something to be said about our culture of ‘grinding’ at work. Hell, that’s the attitude that built the American Dream. Grind until the gears go dull and then keep grinding until you’ve reached success.
This mindset has worked for so many — it can’t be that far removed from the right idea…
