The philosophy of the six-hour day for executives is by no means limited to day or hour units. It is a philosophy, not a system, though to harness it every man must develop his own system of balancing his load between his conscious and subconscious minds. While I believe the six-hour day would serve most executives best, it is undoubtedly true that it would not fit some men. They function best with long periods of relaxation - months spent in travel or loafing. The unit matters not, but regularity of relaxation does matter.
Relaxation is the key to the door of the subconscious mind.
His doctor had told him that he needed to relax more. Not being able to get away from his office until the closing hour, he had acquired the habit of dropping into an easy chair in a corner of his office for 20 or 30 minutes several times a day and picking up a book of fiction or biography or poetry and forgetting all of his business concerns for the moment. I have never sat down in that chair with any thought of developing an idea, but the minute my mind gets relaxed, the ideas begin to develop of themselves. This executive has merely stumbled onto his particular solution of the problem of getting his subconscious mind geared into his business. He discovered it by accident, but he now uses it by design.