Do you treat your dream like a 9-to-5 job?
I hope not.
According to a 2008 survey by Salary.com, the average employee spends more than 25 percent of his or her workday, or 2.09 hours, excluding lunch and scheduled breaks, doing nothing.
And why wouldn’t they do nothing? Often, at a typical 9-to-5 office, employees are graded on hours spent in the office, not on productivity of those hours.
How did this come about? Why are we so quick to judge worth on time spent rather than results?
This wasn’t always the case. Historians believe that early hunter-gatherer societies enjoyed more leisure time than we do today. They didn’t spend all day working if they didn’t have to. Sure things like weather and not having artificial lighting played a role, but I believe it was more than that.
These hunter-gatherers main focus was probably survival. Once they and their families were okay, they turned their attention to something else, like trying to invent fire or carving tweets into a wall.
Somewhere along the line we changed into thinking where you work and how much time you spend there are the main questions to answer.
But questions like that lead to wasting 25 percent of our time.
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