William Willett

A builder by trade and a time-tinkerer by obsession, he was so annoyed by wasted daylight that he practically invented a national ritual of collective clock-tampering just to get everyone up earlier.

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10 August 1856
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Builder
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England

#lessons

Impact isn’t reserved for celebrities – it’s reserved for the persistent.

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...Willett moved to Spain?


He would probably have never learnt to embrace siesta with all his heart.💝