It’s all unconscious!
Absolutely, I would share the awe of musicians but then I note that I can sing a whole song (ok perhaps from the ‘50s or early ‘60s) approximately in tune (to me) and with all the music and words without a single sheet before me. Prepare to be in awe. 
As regards the 35 hour week, I remember when it came in while I was still working as a routier. We were agog how the business would cope as we normally notched up more than 60 a week on average.
Simple, the first thing to go was our Saturday morning get together when we washed our lorries and then had a ‘meeting’ after sending out for wine, coffee, baguettes, saucisses, cheese and other things beside. We were told that if we did that in future (unless arriving from a journey) we must insert a tachograph chart in the tacho so that our time was counted towards our 35 hours. In other words don’t come in at all. The good side of it was that an unemployed local man had a permanent job washing lorries, we named him in true Welsh fashion John the Wash and he is still, in retirement, a regular friend of mine.
As for the rest of the week, we were told that whenever we stopped for a break we must put the tacho on break (fair enough) but also every time we stopped to refuel, wait in a non moving queue, loading whether involved or not and, of course unloading.
Our wages weren’t affected, I think we must have been on a daily salary (albeit the SMIC) whatever we worked so I wasn’t concerned, I was just so happy to be living and working in France at a job that I loved. 
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