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I'll tell this to the cleaning lady who works for a living 12 hours a day. Her 12-hour schedule is the only thing holding her back from truly fulfilling her dreams. I'll tell her 4 or 5 hours is really all she needs to do. When her hungry children come begging for food and her landlord comes asking for the rent, she can tell them that she's just maximizing her productivity and her leisure time, and that they should do the same if they want to live a truly productive and meaningful life.
I take your point and agree that OP is writing from a place of privilege. His post is addressed to knowledge workers and people who could theoretically afford this type of existence. I'm sure just as Darwin was leisurely walking around, there were people working 12 hour days to ensure that he could do so.
Right so your solution for the cleaning lady is for her to work 24 hours? Or double the hour rate? If the second, many of them would choose to work 8 or less hours to improve life quality.
There’s a pattern among history’s most successful & influential people: Most of them worked fewer hours than the average American.
They weren't successful and influential because of that.
They were able to do that because of relative privilege, whether earned by their success or of birth or chance (that likely was key to enabling their succeess/influence) or, most often, a mixture of the two.
Each of them had the freedom to organize their days around productivity.
I think the point (I'm probably wrong) is that these kind of people did not have to "work for others" and had 24h a day every day for themselves. I would love to have 24h/day for myself alone and work in a very productive way around 4h in the morning on stuff of my own. As long as I need to work for others around 8h/day (because I need to pay the bills), then I cannot be productive.
Edit: I don't care about being productive while working for others.
> I don't care about being productive while working for others.
Curious, what do you care about or what priorities keep you focused during an average workday?
Yeah, I'm learning to schedule my deep work when my energy is the highest and the house is the quietest. Remote work is great esp when I lived alone, but now I'm finally my afternoon time blocks get interrupted more & more.
Curious, Matt how do you enjoy life beside binge watching Netflix? What are your pursuits. I've been at this founder journey so long, that most of my pursuits fall into work-related or comatose in from of the tv.
All the guys you mentioned are individual contributors though. I agree 100% with your model in an IC research job or grad school. For something like starting a company or even growing as a leader, the formula doesn't hold.
To OP:
Why didn’t you make this a blog post and build your personal brand? Why freely give us this topic?
Maybe he doesn’t even have a blog? Maybe he just wanted to get the idea out there, nothing wrong with that.
Whenever anyone mentions anything interesting in a conversation with you, do you also ask them why they didn't monetize it instead?
Or is it some kind of sarcasm I'm not getting?