The reason we work 8 hours a day isn’t based on science. It’s just a century-old practiced based on running factories efficiently -- and is irrelevant in today's creative economy. Today the right focus is on your energy, not your hours, according to the author Tony Schwartz, who says, “Manage your energy, not your time.”
Schwartz explains we all need to manage four different types of energies every day:
- Physical energy: How healthy are you?
- Emotional energy: How happy are you?
- Mental energy: How well can you focus on something?
- Spiritual energy: Why are you doing all of this? What is your purpose?
-- Leo Widrich
If you follow the posts below, you can probably see that I am increasingly fascinated with the studies coming out on the organic nature of the human brain. Here's one that I think is quite helpful on what is going on in our society related to stimulus, patterns, focus, and rest and their effect on the brain: Finish this good read on what research is revealing to us in this area.
