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👋 Good day Buddy,
What number of hours of centered work are you doing per day?
Within the e-book “Relaxation: Why You Get Extra Executed When You Work Much less” by Alex Pang, your complete first chapter is on why working 4 hours per day is simplest.
Pang cites dozens of examples from numerous professions—from the best mathematicians to physicians and Nobel Prize winners. All of them conclude that 3–5 hours is the best quantity of focus time per day.
“I appeared to have psychic vitality for less than three or 4 hours of labor, ‘actual work,’ every day.”
— Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician
“Toulouse famous that Poincaré saved very common hours. He did his hardest pondering between 10 a.m. and midday, and once more between 5 and 7 within the afternoon. The nineteenth century’s most towering mathematical genius labored simply sufficient to get his thoughts round an issue—about 4 hours a day.”
“4 hours a day or at most 5, with breaks about each hour (for walks maybe).”
— John Edensor Littlewood
“Norman Maclean, creator of A River Runs By way of It, wrote each morning from 9 to midday; so did Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and Icelandic novelist and Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness. W. Somerset Maugham labored ‘solely 4 hours’ a day, till 1:00 p.m.—‘however by no means much less,’ he added.”
🤔 Again to the query: What number of hours of centered work do you do per day?
I’ve intentionally set the bar low for myself and dedicated to investing three hours per day in centered work. I’ve realized it’s higher for me to decrease the bar to have a good time successes. I discover 180 minutes per day manageable; 300 minutes feels utterly overwhelming.
🤖 I had my focus log (the place I observe each deepwork session) analyzed by AI.
Within the months of August and September (excluding weekends), I spent the next common time per weekday doing deep work:
- Monday: 3:27h (1,658 minutes over 8 Mondays)
- Tuesday: 3:21h (1,204 minutes over 6 Tuesdays)
- ➡️ Wednesday: 2:31h (1,057 minutes over 7 Wednesdays)
- Thursday: 3:12h (1,534 minutes over 8 Thursdays)
- Friday: 1:59h (952 minutes over 8 Fridays)
What does this inform me?
It confirms my assumption that I really feel least productive on Wednesdays. Friday I don’t work a lot within the afternoon anyhow. Because of this, I’m now contemplating shifting one restday from the weekend to Wednesday.
I all the time remind myself that it’s an experiment and gained’t all the time be this manner. I’m gathering information like a scientist, and if I discover after a couple of weeks that it doesn’t work, I’ll change my technique. 🧑🔬🧪🔬
What number of hours per day do you spend on centered work?
What would occur if you happen to might persistently work three hours a day in a centered method over an extended interval? How would your life change?—Write me 😄
Have a productive week! 🌞
xx Lukas
