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Here's the questions:
1. How many days a week do you work on business?
2. How many days a week do you take off?
3. Why do you maintain this schedule? (e.g. I have X obligation so I can't, my work is easy so I'm able to, I don't want my kids to starve, I need breaks, I want that dank lambo, etc)
As entrepreneurs, we don't have the same structure as jobs. We can work whenever we want and (depending on our business) wherever we want. We are our own human resources department now. This leaves a lot of things like weekly schedules up in the air and we need to come to a decision on when we work. Now I got shit on when I posed this question a few weeks ago in my now infamous progress thread so F*ck it, lets put it to a poll and see if we can discuss it and come to a consensus (with all the mandatory TFLF snarkiness of course).
My personal opinion? I think 6 days of work, 1 day of rest is best. Why?
For thousands of years, religions have had "days of rest" where work was taken off (e.g. Sunday in Christianity). I'm an agnostic but I still think that there's a lot of truth in religions and that once again religion has a point. Just like a muscle, human energy capacity gets worn out over time and needs eventual recovery like many cyclical parts of nature and the world. A wave crashes onto shore before the water is pulled back, strong economies need recessions to consolidate, and most animals sleep daily to recharge for when they're awake. We take these things as natural but for some reason in the entrepreneurial culture people are shunned for working less than 7 days a week. But in other subcultures like bodybuilding, even the toughest minded bodybuilder takes days off each week for maximum gains rather than overtraining and getting worse results. 1900s factory workers who worked in inconceivably shitty conditions had days off too. Henry Ford even allowed his workers two days off. Did one of the greatest capitalists of the 20th century do this because he wanted to lose money and get beaten by his competiton? No, because he selfishly wanted to increase worker productivity and as a result of his success with it many other businesses followed suit.
Devils advocate may say "WELL DAYS OFF IS JUST A SLOWLANE BELIEF. YOU DON'T NEED DAYS OFF OR REST IF YOU CAN HAVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE OFF IN 4 YEARS WORKING 24/7/365 STUPID!!" My response is I think you'll get to your fastlane goal faster working 6 very productive days a week than working 7 decent days a week.
I've tried working 7 days a week with no rests like everyone says you should do and you get shamed if you don't. I find it to not to work. After 6 days my mind gravitates very strongly to rest/recovery activities. The day after a rest day I come back stronger than before ready to hit the road again. The 7 day workweek just seems like some insecure dick comparing contest of "I WORK 12 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK" when really the guy saying that is doing easy shit, overestimating, losing out on net productivity, or just bluffing. Working less days and producing more the days you are working seems to be the most effective and fastest path to sustainable progress, IMO. Here's some more sources to back up my belief:
Article 1, Article 2, Jim Rohn video, Great book on the topic.
I'm not making this to preach to you, I'm interested in what other entrepreneurs think and want to see if we can come to a consensus. How many days do you work/take off a week, why, and what are you thoughts?
1. How many days a week do you work on business?
2. How many days a week do you take off?
3. Why do you maintain this schedule? (e.g. I have X obligation so I can't, my work is easy so I'm able to, I don't want my kids to starve, I need breaks, I want that dank lambo, etc)
As entrepreneurs, we don't have the same structure as jobs. We can work whenever we want and (depending on our business) wherever we want. We are our own human resources department now. This leaves a lot of things like weekly schedules up in the air and we need to come to a decision on when we work. Now I got shit on when I posed this question a few weeks ago in my now infamous progress thread so F*ck it, lets put it to a poll and see if we can discuss it and come to a consensus (with all the mandatory TFLF snarkiness of course).
My personal opinion? I think 6 days of work, 1 day of rest is best. Why?
For thousands of years, religions have had "days of rest" where work was taken off (e.g. Sunday in Christianity). I'm an agnostic but I still think that there's a lot of truth in religions and that once again religion has a point. Just like a muscle, human energy capacity gets worn out over time and needs eventual recovery like many cyclical parts of nature and the world. A wave crashes onto shore before the water is pulled back, strong economies need recessions to consolidate, and most animals sleep daily to recharge for when they're awake. We take these things as natural but for some reason in the entrepreneurial culture people are shunned for working less than 7 days a week. But in other subcultures like bodybuilding, even the toughest minded bodybuilder takes days off each week for maximum gains rather than overtraining and getting worse results. 1900s factory workers who worked in inconceivably shitty conditions had days off too. Henry Ford even allowed his workers two days off. Did one of the greatest capitalists of the 20th century do this because he wanted to lose money and get beaten by his competiton? No, because he selfishly wanted to increase worker productivity and as a result of his success with it many other businesses followed suit.
Devils advocate may say "WELL DAYS OFF IS JUST A SLOWLANE BELIEF. YOU DON'T NEED DAYS OFF OR REST IF YOU CAN HAVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE OFF IN 4 YEARS WORKING 24/7/365 STUPID!!" My response is I think you'll get to your fastlane goal faster working 6 very productive days a week than working 7 decent days a week.
I've tried working 7 days a week with no rests like everyone says you should do and you get shamed if you don't. I find it to not to work. After 6 days my mind gravitates very strongly to rest/recovery activities. The day after a rest day I come back stronger than before ready to hit the road again. The 7 day workweek just seems like some insecure dick comparing contest of "I WORK 12 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK" when really the guy saying that is doing easy shit, overestimating, losing out on net productivity, or just bluffing. Working less days and producing more the days you are working seems to be the most effective and fastest path to sustainable progress, IMO. Here's some more sources to back up my belief:
Article 1, Article 2, Jim Rohn video, Great book on the topic.
I'm not making this to preach to you, I'm interested in what other entrepreneurs think and want to see if we can come to a consensus. How many days do you work/take off a week, why, and what are you thoughts?
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