Hello Resistance, How Are You Today and What Do You Want?
The inaction is strong with this one. Or is it?
Do you ever feel like you’re not doing enough? Maybe you have these bouts of work that last for a while here, a time there, but then, even if you’ve gotten a ton of stuff done, you still question what you’ve not done?
Studies I’ve read (but am not looking up to cite here) have shown that most people who “work” an 8-hour day only work maybe 2–4 hours, in total. This is true for lots of reasons, but I believe (again, I’m not citing anything but my memory) this is because most modern jobs don’t need an 8-hour day.
When you’re in a factory on an assembly line, or packing materials in an Amazon warehouse, I imagine that you are working the full 8-hour day. But if you have any sort of office job, odds are you work a bit here, a bit there, but not the full-on 8 hours.
Factor in working from home, and how the “discipline” of in-office supervision alters this further. However, if the work you must do gets done in 2 of the 8 hours that you’re “working”, I think that’s proof positive that the 8-hour workday isn’t what it used to be.
The reason I’m going on about this is because this notion of 8 hours working is insidious. Thus, if you get all your work done in 2 hours and have 6…