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Only 4 Hours of Creative Power
Artist Austin Kleon says, “You’re often most creative when you’re the least productive.”
Eddie Shleyner • Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter
Then, from about nine to one, unless he was giving a lecture, he worked at his own mathematics. Four hours creative work a day is about the limit for a mathematician, he used to say.
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
I perceived anything more than 4 hours of work as a problem. I had conditioned myself to view anything more than 4 hours of work as abnormal. Few people do this. Most people label this lifestyle as “impossible” and then it becomes so. If I had never registered anything more than 4 hours of work as a problem, my mind would not register opportunities
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diminishing returns after three or four hours.