Blurry eyes, keyboard banging, & one global rule of productivity.
I’ve been there. Working far too long on a project. I start to mistype. I lose track of details. Mistakes keep coming and quality goes way down.
Do anything creative for a few hours, and it’s exhausting.
There seems to be a limit on how much consistent effort and attention our brains can handle. It’s actually uncanny how universal this trait of human attention is.
The great minds of history have something in common:
They all worked for 3 hours per day
3 hours seems to be the limit of intense human attention. It’s a useful rule for measuring your daily productivity.
If you can dedicate 3 uninterrupted hours to work, then you’re likely to be more productive than everyone else.
Why? Because everyone else is distracted!
What doesn’t count as part of the three hours:
- Answering emails or messages
- Browsing the internet
- “Research”
- Anything that has to do with your phone
