Looking for a book about living your life by dividing your day into 3 shifts
July 27, 2011 11:27 AM Subscribe
Looking for a book about dividing a day into 3 shifts: 3 hours for community, 3 hours for land, and 3 hours for personal projects. Explained in a book by a couple who advocated this as a way of life, but I've forgotten the book and the names of the authors.
I'm pretty sure that's from Helen and Scott Nearing's work. As described in the linked wikipedia article " Ideally, they aimed at a norm that divided most of a day's waking hours into three blocks of four hours: "bread labor" (work directed toward meeting requirements of food, shelter, clothing, needed tools, and such); civic work (doing something of value for their community); and professional pursuits or recreation (for Scott this was frequently economics research, for Helen it was often music - but they both liked to ski, also)."
They wrote a number of books, but I'm pretty sure this came up specifically in Living the Good Life.
posted by radiomayonnaise at 12:15 PM on July 27, 2011
They wrote a number of books, but I'm pretty sure this came up specifically in Living the Good Life.
posted by radiomayonnaise at 12:15 PM on July 27, 2011
Response by poster: Yup, that's the couple I was thinking of, and the book. Thanks!
posted by MarioM at 12:18 PM on July 27, 2011
posted by MarioM at 12:18 PM on July 27, 2011
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posted by PorcineWithMe at 12:13 PM on July 27, 2011