Are We Going to Change the World?

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In 19 26, henry fort switched over the forty hour work week specifically with the goal of selling more cars to his own employees. His belief was that if they had a week end to go see friends and family, to go recreate, that they would buy a car from the company they worked for. And so well, this, this thing we thought was so solid, is actually kind of shaky. The best companies are the ones that are adapting and changing. So i would actually argue tat as a post pandemic generation, right now, that we have a window of opportunity to say, how are we going to reshape society?

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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• University of California Irvine. Chart your course to career success at ce.uci.edu/learnnow

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