Ryan Vaughn argues work-life balance is a myth because work and life constantly influence each other. He proposes the 3.3 rule: pair focused work with proportional recovery time for higher productivity. Real examples show how personal accidents and hardships directly affect business decisions.
Work-life balance, common phrase that we hear. I still think about it in terms of impact. It's not the number of hours that I work, it's the impact that those hours have, which is why we like the 3.3 rule, because those who follow it and then have their focus time followed by the recovery time are getting more done than the person who's just sitting down and thinking they're working nonstop. The other thing about balance is that in order for something to balance, it has to be able to be separated. And I don't believe you can separate work from life. Your life impacts your work and your work impacts your life. We've had experiences with team members where they've gone through accidents and physically weren't able to do things. That was in their life, but because they physically weren't able to do things, it affected their work. I've had dear friends who have been through scenarios where a lot of heavy stuff was going on in their life and really important moves they needed to make business-wise, like Creating a new department and interviewing the head of that new department got delayed for years.
