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Work Less And Get More Done

Name: Work Less And Get More Done
Uploaded: 2024-12-06T02:55:00+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this short monologue, the speaker presents a productivity insight: working a steady 8‑hour day every day of the week yields higher overall output than…

6 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker presents a productivity insight: working a steady 8‑hour day every day of the week yields higher overall output than cramming 12‑hour days into a five‑day workweek. The argument is illustrated with the academic‑year learning curve, where students gain knowledge over nine months but lose roughly half of it over a summer break, requiring a catch‑up period. Similarly, taking weekend breaks forces workers to restart and lose momentum. By maintaining a consistent daily workload, results compound more efficiently, allowing the speaker to accomplish more while actually logging fewer total hours across the week.

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A productivity hack that took me way too long to learn: you get more done by working 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, than working 12 hours a day for 5. If you look at how students learn across the academic year, they usually have lots of gains during the 9 months, and then they lose about half of what they learned over the year over the summer. And so that's why the first semester oftentimes is catching up on just getting them back to baseline. The same thing happens with your work when you have these weekends, these, these 2, 3 days off, you have to like kind of get back into gear and pick up where you left off. Whereas basically having a consistent workload on a consistent daily basis gets you consistent results that compound faster than the intermittent sprints that you feel like you have to do when you pull all-nighters and do all this grind. And so I've been able to get more done working actually fewer hours, but still over more days.