The 25th Hour

Early Praise for The 25th Hour: How to Thrive (And Gain Ridiculous Amounts of Time) by Getting Out of Your Own Way

“The 25th Hour is both a revelation and a challenge. Schore redefines mediocrity not as incompetence but as cowardice —the idea you didn’t share, the tough conversation you sidestepped, the decision you let drift. The result is a bracing guide to reclaiming your time by confronting the emotional habits that quietly give it away.” —Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Drive and The Power of Regret

“This essential guide shows why all management is really self-management, and how mastering yourself is the fastest way to stop wasting time and start getting what matters done. In The 25th Hour, Neal Schore unfurls life-changing tools that will change how you think, work, and lead.” —Leslie John, author of Revealing

“The 25th Hour speaks to the high achievers who have optimized everything
except their own emotional reactions. Neal Schore offers a surprisingly fun playbook for reclaiming the hours you didn’t realize you were losing.” —Dan Heath, New York Times bestselling author of Reset

“Here is a book with a life-changing message: we spend too much time managing the wrong things. If we want a workplace that is more creative and productive, we need to learn how to manage ourselves. Not only will everyone around you be happier, less stressed, and have more time — so will you!” —Kamini Lane, President & CEO, Coldwell Banker Realty

• By Neal Schore
• Release Date: Aug 11, 2026
• ISBN: 9781668090121
• 272 Pages
• Hardcover

We often equate saving time with working smarter. If only we could cut unnecessary meetings, streamline emails, and collaborate more strategically, we could claw back all the stolen hours in our day. While these tactical adjustments help, they only skim the surface. The real problem isn’t external, but internal. In The 25th Hour, Neal Schore reveals how our emotional reactions quietly eat away not just at our time but also our energy. It’s the unproductive worrying, the anxiety that blooms and spirals, the decisions we make based on fear, the obsession over other people’s actions and behaviors—all those complicated emotional dynamics that we so rarely address at work. More than anything else, we get in our own way.

In three parts, The 25th Hour offers a simple, practical, paradigm-shifting approach to professional development, moving the focus beyond strategies for greater efficiency to what really costs us so much time and energy: our uncontrolled emotional responses.

Part I starts us off with some simple tools that can help you handle yourself better in any professional exchange, including the one question you should always ask yourself.

Part II introduces a series of strategies for maneuvering when life isn’t going as you’d hoped, including a failsafe way for resetting after a distracting or tough experience leaves you in a miasma of self-doubt.

Part III helps you reach new levels of achievement and efficiency by firing your fears, breaking with your automatic responses, and fighting back against impostor’s syndrome, with creative tools that will make you smile as you put them to work.

Drawing on Schore’s personal experiences and his successful work with some of today’s most consequential business leaders, The 25th Hour will show you how to manage yourself in order to manage your professional life. With proven guidance and tools for becoming more self-aware, reigning in unruly feelings, and preventing needless drama, this book will equip everyone from CEOs to students with the skills to focus in on what matters to work more productively and efficiently while also having more fun along the way. The counterintuitive surprise? Your colleagues will love that you don’t waste their time either!