I don’t know anyone who is highly effective and gets everything done between 9 and 5 from Mon-Fri.
I think you probably do, or at least know of them, but might not know how they work. Many people at some of the EA charities I’ve worked at/interned for had pretty regular hours and did/do impressive work. Some did/do work a lot more than most people or had irregular hours, of course.
Yeah, so I basically clock eight hours a day, of time. I’m very regimented, I always clock eight hours a day.
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So basically, I have incredibly constant hours week to week—and again, this is not something I think works for everyone—but I track my hours week to week. I’ve now done this for about 150 weeks-170 weeks, and my guess would be over like 90% of those weeks, I’ve done somewhere between 40 and 43 hours. And that is just because that’s what I found works.
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And always going to bed at the same time and getting up at the same time is critical. So yeah, that’s definitely big for me. Not working in the evenings is big. Nor working at my home or anything. Being like, totally off when I’m off, is also really big. So, basically, I never do work after 7:20PM, there’s basically no time when I break that rule. Those are critical.
Many EAs also have kids, and work relatively regular hours to accommodate that.
When you have to fit everything into regular hours, you can find ways to make those hours more productive and focused, e.g. being more strict about avoiding distractions.
I think you probably do, or at least know of them, but might not know how they work. Many people at some of the EA charities I’ve worked at/interned for had pretty regular hours and did/do impressive work. Some did/do work a lot more than most people or had irregular hours, of course.
Lewis Bollard said he worked 8 hours/day, and it sounds like they were pretty regular and in-office:
Many EAs also have kids, and work relatively regular hours to accommodate that.
When you have to fit everything into regular hours, you can find ways to make those hours more productive and focused, e.g. being more strict about avoiding distractions.