The 3.3 Rule · Free 2 minute quiz
Not because they are lazy, but because their focus blocks are built the wrong length for the way their attention actually runs.
Five questions tell you which of the three archetypes you are, how long your blocks should be, and what to change today.
No cost. Five questions. Your result is on the next screen.
Same eight hours on the clock. The difference is entirely in how the blocks are built.
How it works
That is the whole rule. What changes from person to person is the length of the block, and getting that length wrong is what costs most people their afternoon.
Your attention has a natural run time. Some people tap out at forty five minutes, some can go three hours. Neither is better. Building your day around the wrong one is what hurts.
Every focus block earns a break worth thirty percent of what you just worked. Ninety minutes of focus earns thirty minutes back. Skipping it is what makes the second block worse than the first.
Decide where the block ends before you start it, so you finish on your terms instead of finding out when somebody walks in and interrupts you.
Three different rhythms. All three land on six focused hours inside the same eight hour day.
The three archetypes
None of these is better than the others. They are just different block lengths, with different things to watch for.
Focus blocks of 30 to 60 minutes.
Your day runs best in short bursts with frequent resets, and you can handle interrupt-heavy work that wrecks other people.
The tradeoff is that long projects stall unless you deliberately break them into pieces.
Focus blocks of 60 to 120 minutes.
Your day runs best in medium stretches with real breaks between them, and you can go deep without needing three hours to get there.
The tradeoff is that if you don’t know exactly what comes next, the stretch between finishing a task and needing a break turns into wasted time.
Focus blocks of 120 to 180 minutes.
Your day runs best in long protected stretches with substantial recovery after them. You go deeper than most people can.
Your challenge can be that nothing in you signals when to stop, and an interruption costs you more than it costs anyone else.
What you get
Not a personality label. A schedule you can put on a calendar tomorrow morning, plus the reasoning behind every piece of it.
About that 23 minute statistic.
You have probably seen the claim that it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to refocus after an interruption. I went looking for the study, and there is no study. The number traces back to a 2006 interview and the internet repeated it for 20 years.
The real research is more useful than the myth, and your report walks through what it actually found.
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Five questions, about two minutes. Answer honestly about the week you actually have, not the one you keep meaning to have.
The 3.3 Rule · Work Style Quiz
The average person gets just under three productive hours out of an eight hour day. The 3.3 Rule doubles that, but only if your focus blocks are built the length your attention actually runs.
Five questions, about two minutes, and you’ll get your archetype, your block length, your recovery math, and what to change today.
Sprinter. Jogger. Marathoner. No wrong answer, only a wrong block length.
Your 3.3 archetype
That’s the short version
Your complete breakdown runs about 700 words: what your interruptions are actually costing you, whether your day matches your rhythm, how your breaks are working, and what to change today. Plus the 3.3 Starter Week.
We’ll only use this to send your report and follow up about it. No spam.
The book
Measure impact, not hours, and transform your profitability.
The quiz is one of thirteen tools built around the 3.3 Rule. The book is where the whole system lives, written by a CPA who spent most of his career doing the opposite and nearly paid for it with everything that mattered.
About two minutes. Five questions, one screen each, and your summary appears as soon as you finish.
Not to see your archetype, your block length, and your recovery math. Those are on screen the moment you finish. The full report is emailed and unlocked with your address.
Five questions is a good starting point but it is not enough to be sure, and self-reported focus is one of the things humans are worst at estimating. That is why every report ends with the 3.3 Starter Week: five days of structured blocks where you write down what actually happened. At the end you have your own number instead of an estimate.
No. All three land on roughly six focused hours in an eight hour day. The only thing that changes is how those hours get divided, and each archetype has its own tradeoff.
Yes. The last section of your report changes based on your role, because what an owner can change on Monday is different from what a team member can. If you cannot run a company-wide change, you get the version that works with whatever trust you have already built with your boss.
Find your 3.3 archetype in two minutes.
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