In this engaging discussion, Joe Sanok, author of "Thursday is the New Friday" and host of "Practice of the Practice," shares his vision for a four-day workweek. He explores successful models from Iceland, where productivity soars without added hours. Joe emphasizes innovative time management strategies and the importance of balancing work with personal life. Personal experiences, including family health challenges, inspire his quest for meaningful work, urging listeners to embrace the present and value their time.
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Four-Day Workweek
Joe Sanok always prioritized a four-day workweek, starting with not taking Friday classes in college.
He negotiated a four-day workweek in his first job and continued this pattern.
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Workweek Origins
The seven-day week originated from the Babylonians and their limited understanding of celestial bodies.
The 40-hour workweek was instituted by Henry Ford in 1926 to boost car sales, not for productivity.
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Optimize Brain Function
Avoid hustle culture; prioritize slowing down to optimize brain function for better work.
Short breaks can significantly improve focus and productivity, counteracting vigilance decrement.
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In 'The 4-Hour Workweek', Timothy Ferriss presents a step-by-step guide to 'lifestyle design', encouraging readers to question the traditional notion of retirement and instead create a lifestyle that prioritizes freedom, adventure, and personal growth. The book teaches how to outsource life tasks, automate income, and eliminate unnecessary work using principles like the 80/20 rule and Parkinson’s Law. Ferriss shares his personal journey from a corporate workaholic to a location-independent entrepreneur and provides practical tips and case studies to help readers achieve similar results. The book emphasizes the importance of focusing on high-value activities, taking 'mini-retirements', and living life to the fullest in the present rather than deferring enjoyment until retirement.
Thursday Is the New Friday
Joe Sanok
In 'Thursday Is the New Friday,' Joe Sanok provides a practical, evidence-based methodology for creating a four-day workweek. The book outlines strategies that have helped thousands of professionals reduce their work hours while increasing their income and leisure time. It includes exercises, tools, and training to help readers discard unnecessary tasks, learn efficiencies, and understand the psychological research behind the four-day workweek. Sanok shares his personal journey from working 60-hour weeks to a four-day workweek and provides inspiration from his clients and colleagues who have successfully implemented this approach.
Decisive
How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Chip Heath
Dan Heath
In 'Decisive', Chip and Dan Heath address the critical topic of decision-making, highlighting the biases and irrationalities that disrupt our choices. The book introduces a four-step process—WRAP (Widen your options, Reality-test your assumptions, Attain distance before deciding, Prepare to be wrong)—designed to counteract these biases. Through engaging stories and practical tools, the Heaths provide strategies to stop agonizing over decisions, make group decisions without destructive politics, and ensure that valuable opportunities are not overlooked.
#511 Perhaps you've heard about the four-hour workweek. Well, a lot of us have come to realize that it's kind of hard to come by. Even Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week, has said that maybe wasn't the best title for his book. Because even with passive income coming in, you still have to do work to maintain things. Four hours is probably out of the question for most of us—but what about a four-day workweek? That's three days for a weekend, four days of work, then rinse and repeat. In fact, this has become the norm in places like Iceland, where 85 percent of workers are working just four days a week. And guess what? They still get paid the same, and productivity is up. So the question is, when is this going to happen in the US? Well, the truth is it can happen right now if you are an entrepreneur and you control your own time. And even if you're not an entrepreneur, you can still make this happen if you're smart about it and willing to have the right conversations with your employer. Thankfully, my good friend Joe Sanok from Practice of the Practice might have a path forward for us. Joe has a new book coming out called Thursday is the New Friday, How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want. And he's joining the podcast today to tell us all about how he's made this approach work for himself and his business. He's not "at work" very much anymore, but he's still doing so much to help people, and making good money as a result. So, if you've ever felt overworked or that you're putting too much time into something and not getting a lot of results back, there's a lot of great stuff in this episode for you. Show notes and more at SmartPassiveIncome.com/session511.
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