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The writer argues that Mondays could prove to be the most productive time of the week after a reprieve from work over the weekend.
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The Economist
When the Boomtown Rats, an Irish band, released I Don’t Like Mondays in 1979, the song became an instant hit.
The inspiration behind it was the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego that year. The 16-year-old perpetrator listed “not liking Mondays” as her main reason for firing 36 shots, killing two adults and injuring eight children and a police officer.
