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摘要

You could also spend it booking meetings—not actually having the meetings, mind you—just going back and forth with people to find a mutually convenient time and place to eventually meet. According to research commissioned by Doodle, a software company, the average person spends 4.8 hours per week in the ping-pong experience of scheduling a meeting with someone.Five hours is a compelling amount of time to reclaim for your sanity and success. Studies of high-performing executives like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg have identified what experts call the "five hour rule," where those who excel intheir business universally take, on average, five hours per week to invest in their own development. Elon Musk uses his five hours to read; sometimes he finishes two books per day. Ben Franklin set aside time for experimentation. Some spend it in thought or journaling. For professionals who make their living via creativity (such as florists), time to have dates with the "inner artist" are not just "nice to have"—they're vital to success.