By cutting the normal 60-minute hour to 48 minutes, we could pick up an extra six hours. We could still stay with the same 1,440-minute day, but imagine what you could do with six extra hours in that day. You could easily get to the park and have that picnic. You could go bowling, if for some strange reason you wanted to. You could take a three-quarters-of-an-hour (36 minutes) nap and not feel guilty. The list of extra things you could do with six more hours in the day is almost endless.
Making the cut really wouldn’t be a problem. I mean how many times does anyone use the whole 60 minutes of an hour? Even “60 Minutes” doesn’t use 60 minutes. That show should be called “42 Minutes.”
If you get in 40 minutes of productive activity in a 60-minute hour, that’s good, really good. So by cutting an hour to 48 minutes, not only do we gain more hours, we also waste less time. And we still have a good eight minutes to loaf.
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