Time Freedom: How to Get a Life (That’s Worth Living)
What Time Freedom Means:
Time freedom means getting up when you want, going on vacation or round-the-world trips when you want and for how long you want, spend as much time as you want with your partner or loved ones, eat and sleep when you feel like it, going to the movies or the sauna or the museum on a Wednesday afternoon.
Time freedom means having the time to move deliberately through the world. It means not stressing out and running around like a headless chicken on steroids. Having freedom of time lets you slow down and relax, and let you appreciate life, your environment, people around you and the world in a much deeper way.
When you realise that time is more valuable than money or things, you automatically become wealthier. Time is really what we strive for. And you definitely don’t have enough of it in a 9-5 job. It takes a third of your day, five days a week. In many cases even more.
It means having less routine and restrictions, and more flexibility to be spontaneous.
It also means you can spend your time doing more remarkable, meaningful things. Like change the world or other people’s lives. It means you can lead a more unconventional lifestyle.
The 8-Hour Work Day is Pure Insanity
Anthropologists, historians and sociologists agree that early hunter-gatherer societies enjoyed more leisure time than is permitted by capitalist societies. Aggregated comparisons show that on average the working day was less than five hours.
Thanks to industrialisation, things have changed. For the worse. Eight hours let us be relatively productive, while still having enough time to spend on consumption, which is needed to support a capitalist economy.
It’s all calculated, guys. Henry Ford laid the 8-hour workday on us – for business, not humanitarian reasons. And this is the same for factory as well as office/knowledge workers, shift workers in hospitals, and most other jobs. That’s even more insane! How can we be expected to last eight hours in all jobs that exist under the sun? How can someone standardise something like the 8-hour workday not just for almost any job, but also around the world? People work eight-hour days in the US, in Brazil, in Germany, in China, in South Korea? Impressive.
Different Cultures, Different Rules
To my big dismay, there are also countries and many people around the world who have to conform to way crazier working hours (especially countries such as India and Japan) or are not even protected by work time laws at all.
However, on the opposite end, other cultures don’t believe in crazy work hours at all:
Samoa has a 30 hour work week. And the Kapauka people of Papaua think it is bad luck to work two consecutive days.
My Culture, My Rules
In my world, I believe that more than four hours of work a day is bad for you. I believe in spending the other 20 hours, socialising and spending time with family and friends, enjoying the outside and nature, being creative or in learning mode, exercise your body and mind and, of course, resting and enjoying life!
Time freedom means getting up when you want, going on vacation or round-the-world trips when you want and for how long you want, spend as much time as you want with your partner or loved ones, eat and sleep when you feel like it, going to the movies or the sauna or the museum on a Wednesday afternoon.
Time freedom means having the time to move deliberately through the world. It means not stressing out and running around like a headless chicken on steroids. Having freedom of time lets you slow down and relax, and let you appreciate life, your environment, people around you and the world in a much deeper way.
When you realise that time is more valuable than money or things, you automatically become wealthier. Time is really what we strive for. And you definitely don’t have enough of it in a 9-5 job. It takes a third of your day, five days a week. In many cases even more.
It means having less routine and restrictions, and more flexibility to be spontaneous.
It also means you can spend your time doing more remarkable, meaningful things. Like change the world or other people’s lives. It means you can lead a more unconventional lifestyle.
The 8-Hour Work Day is Pure Insanity
Anthropologists, historians and sociologists agree that early hunter-gatherer societies enjoyed more leisure time than is permitted by capitalist societies. Aggregated comparisons show that on average the working day was less than five hours.
Thanks to industrialisation, things have changed. For the worse. Eight hours let us be relatively productive, while still having enough time to spend on consumption, which is needed to support a capitalist economy.
It’s all calculated, guys. Henry Ford laid the 8-hour workday on us – for business, not humanitarian reasons. And this is the same for factory as well as office/knowledge workers, shift workers in hospitals, and most other jobs. That’s even more insane! How can we be expected to last eight hours in all jobs that exist under the sun? How can someone standardise something like the 8-hour workday not just for almost any job, but also around the world? People work eight-hour days in the US, in Brazil, in Germany, in China, in South Korea? Impressive.
Different Cultures, Different Rules
To my big dismay, there are also countries and many people around the world who have to conform to way crazier working hours (especially countries such as India and Japan) or are not even protected by work time laws at all.
However, on the opposite end, other cultures don’t believe in crazy work hours at all:
Samoa has a 30 hour work week. And the Kapauka people of Papaua think it is bad luck to work two consecutive days.
My Culture, My Rules
In my world, I believe that more than four hours of work a day is bad for you. I believe in spending the other 20 hours, socialising and spending time with family and friends, enjoying the outside and nature, being creative or in learning mode, exercise your body and mind and, of course, resting and enjoying life!
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