One of the [[3 Principles of Slow Productivity]] by Cal Newport was to work at a natural pace. Cal Newport went surprisingly literal with "natural" here - he talked about hunter-gatherers have "seasons" to their work. While, yes, the actual _pace_ of modern life is considerably faster than really any time in human history before us, another problem is just how _unchanging_ that pace is. We are expected to put in 40+ hours a week, every week, except for those couple of weeks a year where you get vacations. Cal was a fan of longer, month(s)-long breaks in an annual cycle. He also briefly went into the concept of working very _slowly_ and then _very fervently_ when the inspiration struck. While I didn't make note of this at the time I read the book - this feels like it directly applies to how many hours you put in *today* on the things that matter. As I've heard across many other sources, we probably really only are capable of about ~3 hours a day on average of real, focused, legitimate, good, *work*. Going beyond that is probably not great... and yet we're all expected to work 8 hours most days, and that's considered "the minimum". **** # More ## Source - [[Slow Productivity]] ## Related