It’s not the number of working hours that counts #shorts

4 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by TJ Walker arguing that productivity matters more than total hours worked. Walker uses Albert Einstein’s Princeton routine—late start, midday nap, focused morning work, early evening dinner, and long sleep—as an example to suggest that working longer hours isn’t necessarily better and promotes adopting a similar habit focused on creation rather than grinding.

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It's not the number of hours you work, it's what you actually create in the hours you do spend working. Albert Einstein, when he was at Princeton University, didn't leave his house in the morning till 10:30, often walking to the campus, to his office. He'd come home by 1:30 in the afternoon, eat lunch, take a nap, and the rest of the afternoon it was a leisurely work at home, dinner at 6:30, and then a long, long night of sleep. It worked for Albert Einstein. If you're grinding away, getting up earlier, working later, maybe that's not the Einstein way of doing things. Please follow the TJ Walker habit.