Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/11/oliver-burkeman-four-hour-working-day?CMP=share_btn_tw
Are you working your brain too hard? Take it easy – like Charles Darwin, Alice Munro or Thomas Jefferson
How much proper brainwork – not zoning out in meetings, or reorganising the stationery cupboard, but work that involves really thinking – should you aim to get done in one day? It sounds like a trick question. We think of creativity as fundamentally mysterious, and of humans as extremely varied. Plus there are so many kinds of white-collar work: why assume the same answer for lawyers, academics, investment bankers and engineers? But the answer isn’t some sophisticated version of: “It depends.” The answer is four hours...
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