“Early in its history, Google famously instituted a “20-percent time” program for all Google engineers: for every four hours they spend working on official company projects, the engineers are required to spend one hour on their own pet project, guided entirely by their own passions and instincts.”
– Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From
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“So I took those five training hours that I’d previously dedicated to bodybuilding, and then to the craft of acting, and I turned them into a kind of immersion program for the language of politics and government. Every day, I studied and practiced like a foreign exchange student trying to learn the local language, reviewing my notes over and over again, and then speaking from memory until the words came naturally.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful
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If you work 8 hours in a job, then 20% would be 2 hours a day for your own projects.
Arnold discusses how he spent 5 hours a day developing his body, learning acting, then studying politics.
I haven’t got five hours a day.
I think 2 hours is a stretch.
But 1 hour is definitely achievable.
This blog is part of my 1 hour, or 10% time.
It’s unpaid, financially.
But I get stock options in myself.
When you invest in yourself, the time spent is priceless.
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