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Key takeaways from Stop Spending Time on Things You Hate

Your time on Earth is precious and limited. Here’s how to waste it. Open at source

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For the sake of happiness and productivity, our goal should not be to squeeze every second of distraction and leisure out of our days. Rather, it should be to manage our days in accordance with our priorities, by distinguishing between the time wasters we like and those we don’t
Thoreau has quite a bit to say about wasting time. “The cost of a thing,” he wrote in Walden, “is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
For the sake of happiness and productivity, our goal should not be to squeeze every second of distraction and leisure out of our days.
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