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#554 - Laura Vanderkam - 9 Strategies To Better Control Your Time

Modern Wisdom

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The Seven Days of Creation

The ancient Greek word for work was translated as not at leisure and I thought that was very interesting that the Greeks saw work as an aberration. There are some cultures that have sort of a different repeating cycle like the market day is the every every fifth day right and so they have a cycle of five days but if people are listening to this podcast you're in a place where you have seven days and a week so that's uh that's where sort of that idea comes from. It's a very easy get out of jail free card for every generation to lay their challenges at the feet of something that previous generations didn't have to deal with or to think that they are somehow entirely different than all

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