The 144,000 second work week

Marcelo Garcia is considered by some to be the Michael Jordan of Jiu-Jitsu. He has attributed his success to breaking into thirty steps what his opponents see as a three-step move.

If you can break up one opportunity into ten, you create more points of potential intervention. You gain multiple entry points where you can influence your situation.

For example, the traditional forty hours per week spent working can be minimized by just counting the hours. However, if the work matters, there is benefit to breaking up the time into more frequent intervals.

Of the typical hour, how much is spent with focused attention? If you only ask this question at the end of the hour, how accurate would your answer be?

We can multiply our number of opportunities to focus, and apply that focus to create work that matters, by thinking about it as a 2,400-minute workweek or a 144,000-second workweek. If you continue slicing into smaller and smaller intervals, you travel asymptotically toward a continual flow state.

This is how the Jordans and Garcias can seem to do the impossible.

Like the image on a TV becomes more clear as the number of pixels increases, an increasing number of moments to which we are present brings more life to our experience.