Is the Four Day Workweek Really a Good Idea?

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The iceland study that actually just came out a couple months ago, is one of the largest studies of the four day work week. Even though it was 32 hours, we saw a boostin productivity, boost in creativity, better health outcomes, better happiness. And so we also see in other ways, the idea of going where we have the macro of the three day week end, to then go to the narrow science around the micro of how we actually do breaks within our regular workday. That's trinking, just in terms of expanding our thinking associated with both five day, forty hour work week and everything like, hi, is this sort of built into nature, or is this something

Joe Sanok shares compelling research on how we can achieve more by working fewer hours.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What Iceland learned from a four-day work week

2) The 1-minute trick for dramatically improving productivity

3) Quick focus hacks for achieving flow faster

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— ABOUT JOE —

Joe Sanok is the author of Thursday is the New Friday: How to work fewer hours, make more money, and spend time doing what you want. It examines how the four-day workweek boosts creativity and productivity. Joe has been featured in Forbes, GOOD Magazine, and the Smart Passive Income Podcast. He is the host of the popular The Practice of the Practice Podcast, which is recognized as one of the Top 50 Podcasts worldwide with over 100,000 downloads each month. Bestselling authors, experts, scholars, and business leaders and innovators are featured and interviewed in the 550 plus podcasts he has done over the last six years.

• Joe’s book: Thursday is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want

• Joe’s website: ThursdayIsTheNewFriday.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “Going Public: Iceland's Journey to a Shorter Working Week”

• Study: “Brief diversions vastly improve focus, researchers find” (full text)

• Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

• Book: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael Singer

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