BRAIN AND WORK
I took the opportunity to make an experiment on the number of hours per day for which I could really work, nting the actual minutes at which I began asd left off, even for a quite short time. I came definitely to the conclusion that eight hours was the maximum period through which I could fix my attention on serious brain work, and that I could not keep this up for two days running; and that there was no gain but a loss in working hard for more than six hours. This I have always taken as a rule in afterlife. Needless to say, that this does not apply to the ordinary i*ound of more or less mechanical routine, which, with most people, passes for work; I am speaking only of real attention, of real thinking, which is the most exhausting of all the occupations of life.—Walter Leaf.
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3210, 30 July 1932, Page 6
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