The super power of longer work hours

'More hours' does different things at the level of individual, firm or country

N R Narayana Murthy made waves when he advocated 70 hours a week of work for the young.

The hours put in by an individual

There is much merit in high levels of intensity in work. The mass culture extols fun, the work/life balance, and the shallow hours spent consuming the creations of others. It fails to understand asceticism, the importance of concentration, and the importance of doing rather than watching.

The word “talented” is dangerous and misplaced. Virtually none of us is an Einstein or a Ramanujan. What comes of us is made by work, by marinating in ideas, through the influence