No mentally healthy and fully lived life can be achieved with a 40 hours work week schedule.
The 40 hours American Industrial standard is based on a neoslavery imbalanced life, barely surviving to continue production.
Europe did better with a 35 hours work week.
Ideally, I would say 25-30 hours week should be the maximum, if a person is practicing deep work, using tools such as Pomodoro or 30/30. For cognitive work, Research shows they will be more productive!
If you have a Barnes and Nobles in your city, you should never be bored.
Which is more tragic, Beslan or Karbala?
This year is the first three-year period of consecutive life expectancy declines since WWI and the Spanish Flu in 1918…
and it is due to ….
Opioid abuse.
Statistically, average empathic guys earn two and half time the average narcissistic ones.
George Valliant study
Know these 20 in 2018 (talk about this coming):
1. The 80/20 rule.
2. Parkinsonās Law.
3. Batching and Automation.
4. Value: First give then get.
5. Minimalism maximizes life.
6. Fail fast and early.
7. The key to happiness is Healthy Relationships.
8. Assume rapport.
9. Visualize Goals to use your RAS (Reticular Activation System)
10. Your attitude changes your reality.
11. Gratitude makes you happy.
12. Donāt compare yourself to others.
13. 80-90% of what you fear will never happen.
14. Nothing is too serious.
15. Use notebook and write everything down.
16. Experience = opportunity
17. Reading is the fuel to success
18. Money is debt. Investment Debt is wealth.
19. If you don’t have a budget, you are broke.
20. If you don’t plan your time, your time is wasted.
Social relationships brings happiness and money brings happiness.
How much money you need to match the happiness friends bring?
$121,000 extra a year according to the Journal of Socio-Economics.
Banjamin Bloomās research: āAfter 40 years of intensive research on school learning in the United States as well as abroad, my major conclusion is: What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn, if provided with the appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.ā
Talents and gifts are a myth.
If you own a retail business, and you donāt accept Apple Pay, you are slowing the advancement of civilization.
Research:
Sleep deprivation has been shown to effect:
1. Decision-making
2. Ethics
3. Health
4. Time estimation
Creative thinking drops by 45% under high level of time pressure. (Teresa Amabile, Harvard)
Sleeping only 7 hours a night for a while will bring an A student in the top 10% to the bottom 9% of the non-sleep deprived in her class.
39% of Americans work 50 or more hours.
18% work 60 or more.
6.8 hours: average sleep an America. Gets at night
2 weeks of 6 hours a night sleep makes a person effectively equivalent to a drunk person.
The amount of happiness resulting from the extra overtime pay in money from working 70 hours is less than the unhappiness from the imbalance of work-life it causes.
Wissam Charafeddine 