- Hey friends, Dave Burkus here.
Welcome back to the DailyBurk.
Today we are answering the question:
How many hours a week should you work?
Or how many hours a day should you work?
And if...
This is a really, kind of timely topic.
In the past couple of weeks there have been stories
from superstar of CEOs boasting
about how all of their people
are expected to work 80 to 100 hours a week,
because they're trying to change the world.
And then other books coming out from CEOs
who are notable for pushing their people
to work less hours every single week.
And it begs this actual question.
Like how did the standard become 40?
And what should the right standard be?
Well how the standard became 40
was actually relatively easy.
There's a couple of different stories
about Henry Ford and whomever,
but really it was labor laws from the late 1930s in the U.S.
that really established 40 hours a week
as a regular, reasonable period of time.
Now what do we know about that period of time?
When we think about it what do we know?
Well we know that was a time where people
were working 12, 14 hour shifts in factories.
Where children were working in factories,
where women and
I mean everybody was trying to work.
Trying to beat their way out of poverty and the Depression.
There were factories taking advantage of it.
And so somebody had to come in and go,
"Whoo, okay.
"What is the reasonable amount of time we could expect,
"like, the human body to do industrial level work.
"And beyond that is reasonable.
"And while we're making those laws,
"let's make some ones for the kids, too
"because this is just disgusting."
So that was the period of time that we sort of convalesced
around this idea of 40 hours a week.
And fast forward almost 100 years,
the nature of work has changed dramatically
to where people are doing
what Peter Drucker would call knowledge work,
what I would actually call creative work.
Most people in the economy in North America,
but in really any developed country
are doing work that involves solving problems,
figuring out systems
that involves creativity among all else.
And so...
we should be thinking, okay, it's a different type of work
let's re-evaluate this.
Now two studies kind of come to mind
when I think about this.
The first is that one thing that we know
from a myriad of research
is that when it comes to this creative work,
more hours does not necessarily mean better.
And in fact one of my favorite studies
comes from a group of researchers
led by one from Stanford University
that showed that after about 55 hours a week,
any increase was actually sort of a decrease in production.
Where people who were working 70 hours a week
were just as effective as people
who were working 55 hours a week.
Which kind of makes you think about these people
boasting about 80 to 100 hour weeks.
Well, you're actually only doing as much
as any human is capable of doing in like 50 to 55 hours.
So it's great that you're wasting time at the office and all
but you're not really getting work that creates value done.
Now another line of research suggests that we're...
Again we're talking about creative work,
we're talking about knowledge work,
that people can kind of work in bursts,
with deep focus in this creative task for about 90 minutes
and then they need to take a break.
So you start doing the math,
okay 90 minutes,
then a little break maybe 30 minutes,
maybe an hour meeting et cetera.
And really if you think about how many cycles of that
could you get through in a day,
yeah, you could get through four,
but you probably couldn't.
Right?
Because you're gonna have meetings,
you're gonna have lunch breaks,
you'll have client calls, et cetera.
So really I think you shoot for two to three
of those deep work cycles for about 90 minutes per day,
and then you can kind of fill the rest of the day
with whatever meetings or calls that you have.
We're honestly talking about six or seven hours
of really productive, effective time every single day.
If you're expected to be at the office for eight hours
because we've inherited all of those things from the 1930s,
then I totally get it.
But know that like, unless you're doing
that deep focused 90 minutes spurts,
you're probably not gonna be all that effective.
What does this mean in terms of the overall week?
Well, we're looking at something that looks
a lot less than 40 hours a week.
We're looking at maybe 35, maybe 32, maybe even 30 hours.
And suddenly these companies that are actually boasting
about how their people actually work
Monday through Thursday or what have you,
start to look a whole lot more reasonable.
We need to separate out this idea
that in a knowledge or creative work economy,
presence equals productivity.
It just doesn't.
Understand how you work,
for how long of a period of time do you need focus,
which is probably gonna be 60 to 90 minutes.
Get as many repetitions of that in a day
as you can that's reasonable.
But recognize that
that's really probably gonna be two or three,
and then after that any additional time
is not actually all that productive.
Don't boast about how many hours
of work a week that you work
because we know that if it's more than 55
you're ineffective.
Honestly, start boasting about how much value you create
in the short amount of time that you work
and I think things'll go much better for you,
for your sanity.
But I think people are gonna begin to appreciate that.
Who can create the most amount of value
with the shortest period of time.
That,
not the number of hours a week that you're putting in
is gonna be the new thing to brag about
in the next five, 10, 15 years.
Thanks so much for watching this episode of the DailyBurk.
Leave a comment, let me know...
Do you want to admit it?
Let me know how many hours a week you work
in the comments below.
And whether or not that's working for you.
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How Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins Really Makes His Money - Duration: 10:05.
Right now, Ninja is the biggest streamer on Twitch, so by the hour he's easily out-earning
his peers.
In fact, he's out-earning most high-end jobs.
Ninja makes a lot of money, and that income amasses from numerous sources, making him
one of the highest-paid names in the Twitch game.
"People can make millions of dollars a year just from playing Fortnite."
"That's why I invited one of the most popular players to come here and teach me, please
welcome Ninja."
No doubt about it: Tyler "Ninja" Blevins is the ultimate Twitch success story.
"Tyler Ninja Blevins.
Do I call you Ninja, do I call you Tyler?
What is, what is your, what do I call you?"
"Ninja's usually easier."
Once the Fortnight phenomenon hit, Ninja rode that wave straight to the top, and he's yet
to come down.
Polygon reported that within 30 days, Ninja gained 2.3 million subscribers and nearly
a billion views on his YouTube channel, all because of his mad skills when it comes to
playing Epic Games' blockbuster title.
"BOOOM!
YAAAA!
YAAAA!
"That was so dirty… let's gooooo"
So how do those numbers break down, money-wise?
Ninja has nearly 12 million Twitch followers, but those come for free.
It's the subscribers that make the real money on Twitch, and Ninja claims to have well over
one-hundred thousand subscribers.
If that's true, and we have every reason to believe it is true, Ninja is a millionaire
off of Twitch alone.
That doesn't include all the other revenue streams he has at his fingertips… but we'll
get to those in a minute.
"That's not clickbaiting at all, dude.
It's literally serving, like, dude, I'm sorry man."
Twitch subscriptions aren't all the same.
Different tiers allow viewers to decide how much money they want to pay streamers, and
opting into Twitch Prime gives viewers a free sub each month.
Ninja has reluctantly admitted that he makes an average of three dollars and fifty cents
per subscriber.
In March of 2018, he said he'd reached a total of one-hundred and forty thousand Twitch subscribers,
but later that month, Ninja hit a serious landmark, topping two-hundred thousand Twitch
subscribers.
"Whoooo, we did it, baby!
Two-hundred Kaaayyyyyy…
I can't believe those words are even coming out of my mouth, man."
When you do the math, if he averages 200,000 Twitch subscribers, Ninja's monthly income
from that source alone would be roughly seven-hundred thousand dollars.
You gotta admit: Making over eight million dollars a year is none too shabby for a professional
video-game player.
No wonder he puts in those crazy hours.
"Um, how many hours a day do you play this game?"
"Uh, about 10 to 12 hours a day."
"Mmhmm in a single sitting?"
"No, no."
It's safe to say Ninja is a bonafide YouTube sensation.
He hosts the best moments from his Twitch streams over on his YouTube channel, which
are edited down into riveting compilation videos that rake in millions of views.
He currently has over 20 million subscribers, but it's the views on YouTube that really
count.
YouTubers make their money through ad revenue, earning between one and three dollars per
every thousand views, and that's a conservative estimate.
According to Social Blade, Ninja pulls in an average of ninety million views per month
on his YouTube channel.
That puts his monthly YouTube revenue at roughly one-hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
Combined with the money he makes on Twitch, that's definitely a salary worth shouting
about.
"Aaahhh!"
As he told CNBC in March 2018:
"A lot of the income is definitely coming from the Amazon and Twitch Prime subscribers.
We also just hit five million subscribers on YouTube as well."
Ninja gets hundreds if not thousands of donations each day, and some of them are for truly mind-boggling
amounts of money.
"An anonymous one-hundred thousand dollar donation!"
Every few months, some subscriber with a highly disposable income will throw a few thousand
dollars Ninja's way, just because they can.
"I just can't even.
I literally can't even."
Sometimes Ninja gets these donations while streaming for charity.
Other times, the cash goes directly into his pocket.
And rest assured, all of the smaller donations and cheers seriously add up.
"I will wanna do is caress you, ya know what I'm-"
Although his donation records are kept private, the average viewer is able to see his weekly
top cheerers, who throw Twitch Bits.
Ninja's top cheerers are tossing around approximately six-hundred dollars worth of Bits, which each
cost a little over one cent.
On average, the week's Top Ten cheerers add up to approximately fourteen-hundred dollars
worth of Bits.
Standard donations are much more frequent, and the Top Ten donations on Ninja's Twitch
channel can reach nearly six-thousand dollars.
A conservative estimate places Ninja's earnings from donations at about ten-thousand dollars
a month.
And when you add in all those donations that aren't in the top spots, Ninja could easily
be making up to forty-thousand dollars in donations each month.
Twitch is where Ninja really rakes in the big bucks, especially considering all of the
ads that are running.
He's reportedly averaging about eight-hundred thousand viewers each day, and a lot of those
viewers are big, big fans.
"Avid Affinity said, will you ever acknowledge my memes?
Avid, I will never acknowledge your memes."
At the end of the day, Ninja's channel is racking up approximately twenty-five million
views each month, and he streams about six ads every hour, on average.
Those ads are typically technology- or game-related commercials from companies like T Mobile,
and these businesses pay more than the average advertiser: Something between one or two dollars
per thousand views.
With millions of viewers checking out Ninja's channel every month, it's safe to say he's
making thousands of dollars in ad revenue every day.
Oh, so this is what jealousy feels like.
"How much money have I made so far?"
"About $5,000."
Ninja was relatively late to the merchandizing game.
In fact, it wasn't until late 2018 that his official store launched, just in time for
early holiday shopping.
Don't worry: the store includes a whole collection dedicated to his now-legendary "Pon Pon" dance.
"Ooh, that's gonna be a 'yikes' from me!"
However, these well-designed looks don't come cheap.
The hoodies are priced at fifty-five dollars apiece, and the T-shirts are each twenty-eight
bucks, which might be a touch outrageous, but so is Ninja.
"I am the firestarter!
I am the beginning and the end of Fortnite, I am the media!"
At the end of the day, there's no way to know exactly how much he's making from his merch…
but with his thousands of dedicated subscribers and millions of followers, it's safe to say
they're being purchased by the truckload.
"You have a couple signature things, one if your signature headband."
"Yes."
"I almost kind of like yours more than mine"
"... a little bit, a little bit… pull..
There it is, boom!"
A quick glance at Ninja's Twitch channel confirms that he has loads of sponsorships.
He won't reveal the exact number, but after a one-hundred dollar donor asked Ninja to
give him a YouTube channel shoutout on stream, we now have a vague idea of just how much
these sponsorships are paying Ninja.
Ninja essentially told the donor that asking for a shoutout for a mere $100 was preposterous.
"If I were to promote anything whatsoever, it would be, like, a minimum of ten grand.
Like, minimum."
In fact, Ninja revealed that he usually gets about twenty or thirty grand for just one
hour of gameplay.
"I don't know who you are, I don't know if your content is good, I don't know anything
about you, man."
Because Ninja's so insanely popular, brands that typically aren't associated with gaming
are extremely eager to work with Ninja too.
In July 2018, he made waves by announcing his endorsement with UberEats.
"Guys, we have a Uber Eats-"
"Here's the note"
"- and Ninja partnership going on.
Here's the note, I'm like, haaaaa..."
He also partnered with Red Bull and has been consistently ranked a top athlete in terms
of his reach and social media influence, something that sponsors, brands, and potential advertisers
take very seriously when considering where they're going to spend their money.
"How's your battery life?"
"I'm good.
You good?"
"I'm good."
"Good."
"Good.
How's your actual life?"
"Heh, heh."
"Heh heh."
Ninja's success can be attributed to many things: his talent and personality definitely
lend themselves to his meteoric achievements.
But it also helps to have support at home, especially considering Ninja's brutal stream
schedule and the sea of emails he presumably receives from advertisers, sponsors, and potential
partners.
That's where the talents of his wife comes into play.
Jessica Blevins takes on the dual role of wife and manager to the biggest streamer on
Twitch, and that's no small feat.
She comes well qualified too, being an occasional streamer under the name JGhosty and boasting
a degree in Interpersonal Communications and Public Relations.
It was Jessica who first started getting Ninja's name out there by pitching him to companies
in search of sponsorships.
Of course, these days, the sponsors contact her.
"Ninja plus Red Bull equals opportunity."
It's a huge job, and Ninja simply doesn't have the time to do it himself.
Jessica works overtime in order to take all the emails, calls, and negotiations… all
while Ninja streams in the next room.
Those work days constitute an absolutely ridiculous amount of money pouring in, but Jessica and
Ninja are managing every cent wisely… and they're choosing their sponsorships wisely.
For evidence of that, just check out Ninja's Samsung commercial.
"You ready?"
"Honey!
… You ready?"
How would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a month?
It's easy for Ninja to cover rent, groceries, and basic daily expenses.
And when it comes to the huge amounts of cash he's raking in, Ninja isn't wasting a dime.
He told CNBC, he's being extremely smart with his money:
"Um so definitely investing and saving it as much as possible.
I don't plan on doing anything crazy with it."
He uses some of those earnings to sponsor shelter animals, paying for surgeries and
other expenses so these creatures can find permanent homes.
Ninja told Forbes he feels obligated to use his influence for good.
He plans on future fundraisers and is proud of the work he's done so far, raising money
for suicide awareness and handing out huge checks to breast cancer survivors.
In July 2018, he told ESPN:
"I'm just trying to do, you know, everything in my power to make sure that I'm just, staying
level-headed, focused, and just being a good role model to a lot of the kids out there."
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FAQ - How much do dental implants cost? | Oklahoma City Dentist - Duration: 0:36.
Joe Isaacson: When it comes to dental implants, the value of the dental implant really is
because you don't have to touch the adjacent teeth.
Bridges work well, however though they have to use adjacent teeth for them to work.
They have a tendency to wear out and they're harder to take care of.
When you have a dental implant, it's placed independent from any other teeth, so they're
easy to maintain.
They do last longer, and they work just as well because they're not attached to any other
adjacent teeth.
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