Most entrepreneurs feel that staying up all night and working for an insane number of hours throughout the day is a pre-requisite to becoming successful. Twitter CEO and the Co-Founder, Jack Dorsey, however, differs from the common notion and says that this is an entirely outdated approach and leads to burn out.
Twitter Chief Jack Dorsey Doesn’t Like Working Twenty Hours A Day
In the latest episode of The Boardroom: Out of Office Podcast, the successful entrepreneur said that he believes in bringing value to the hours that he works rather than counting the hours. In his view, the practice of working incessantly without taking breaks is unhealthy and not favorable to the business.
Optimize Every Hour
He said “I would rather optimize for making every hour meaningful — or every minute meaningful — than I would maximize the number of hours or minutes I’m working on a thing,” “Because I just found that the maximization of time takes away from the quality within the time I do have.”
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Quality Over Quantity For Twitter Chief
The young billionaire said that most of the people who are too strict on the routine and prefer working seemingly all the hours are not self-aware and also get the least time to focus on the things around them. According to him, Self-awareness is critical and pivotal to his enormous success.
Not Working 20 Hours
He further explained that most people believe that his success is accounted to 20 work hours in a day and only sleeping for four hours. Since Elon Musk does that, people assume he also follows the same routine. However, Jack Dorsey calls this a BS. He rather disapproved of Musk’s aggressive work routine of up to 120 hours a week.
Better Use of Day
Dorsey would instead find ways to schedule his day more resourcefully and use every hour optimally and deliver quality in whatever he is doing. He shared that before the covid outbreak, he used to wake at 5 AM and practise Vipassana Meditation to understand and examine thought patterns. He would walk to work, spending 90 minutes, and also listen to podcasts while walking to learn something new.
Reflecting on Life is Important
Dorsey shared about journalling since the early age of 14, and he is still curious to reflect on life as a billionaire and entrepreneur:
“What is the world trying to teach me about what I need to do personally to maintain this level, or to extend, or go beyond the level?