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#361: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath

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How Many Creative Hours a Year?

Every single 365 day cycle must exceed one thousand creative hours. There can't be a day in any 300 d 65 day cycle, january two to january two. It doesn't matter if you're sick or there's other stuff you'd like,. A thousand creative hours a year as a minimum base linee is the limit. And i don't think i've missed for well over 30 years and i hope to hit forr a lot longer.

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Three hours of creative work, enjoy dinner with joanne. Bet. I mean, that's like a great day. So, but other days are full of lots of other choppy things. And so what i tend to do is to try to capture a bit of what happened with sleep, what happened with the main tasks of the day, if there were some real interesting conversations that happened, or something that hid in those ill note those. They're markers, so that i can always go backoh, to show with you how i use those in a minute. Because i actually do these correlations with all that. And then the second cell is the number of creative hours i got that day. Now, there's no rule about how many you get in a day. Sometimes there zero, and sometimes the they can be nine or ten, which would be huge number. And but then it calculates back over the last three hundredd 60 nired days. And the end of march, which i don't think i've missed for well over 30 years, and i hope to hit forr a lot longer. Now, is every single 365 day cycle, every single one, every single day. B if you calculate back the last 365 days, the total number of creative hours must exceed one thousand, no matter what. It doesn't matter if you're sick, it doesn't matter if, ah, if there's other stuff you'd like, a thousand creative hours a year as a minimum base linee can be above that, that's fine, but never once. There can't be a day in any 300 d 65 day cycle, january two to january two. July 22 to july 22. September ninth, o september ninth, doesn't matter. Always has to be above a thousand creative hours. And you watch it, and i put on the white board here at the lab, the three month pace. So you take the last three months multiplied times four, the six month pace, and then the current three 60 fi. And that is a way to kind a monitor. And if i start seeing that those numbers start to go down, you'll all change my behaviour.

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