The 8-8-8 Rule: Your Blueprint for a Healthy Life
Cultural Pressure
Common phrases: hustle or grind
Doing more ≠ Being more
Recipe for burnout and depression
The 8-8-8 Rule
- The concept dates to the Industrial Revolution, when factories required their workers to work up to 16 hours a day, six days a week.
- Created in 1817 by a Welsh manufacturer name of Robert Owen
- Owen set the goal of an eight-hour workday
- Famous phrase: “8 hours labor, 8 hours recreation, eight hours rest.”
- When implemented, they found there was no drop in productivity.
- The 8 hr workday became the standard around 1919.
Source
[1] Fileta, D. (2023). Reset. Harvest House Publishers.
