Sorry the image is hard to read, I will type everything out.
So with school started I began thinking about how do other people seem to do so much more in a busy schedule? I think time is not the same for everyone, and especially for how you spend each unit of time.
Intro: Obviously there's not enough time to do everything we want to do in a day, but there's enough time to do the most important things. And like in a video game where once you find what loophole or action yields the most results, spending most of your time grinding that will get you way farther ahead. If you spend your time doing the things that give you the highest yields, your life will skyrocket faster ahead than every one else's, regardless of how "busy" you seem. This post seeks to exploit the use of time for maximum benefits. Just like we wouldn't spend money in a depreciating asset, we wouldn't want to spend our precious time on things that actually cost us more time and stress later on down the line.
Theory: Each unit of time is not equivalent. Based on how you spend that unit of time, you get more focus and energy, making you more efficient, adding time to your day. Some actions have negative or positive residual benefits over time. This gives the perception that you have more or less time than other people.
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Time-Positive Activities
Meditation
An hour spent meditating actually saves you time and returns time back to you. It prevents 3 - 4 hours of procrastinating, and 3 - 4 hours of confusion and mistakes while working. An hour spent meditating theoretically adds 7 hours back to your life.
Exercise
An hour spent exercising improves oxygenation and focus for 24 hours, so you receive residual benefits or "dividends" for more than just the 1 hour spent. The benefits are cumulative and add up over a lifetime.
Creativity
An hour spent on a creative pursuit that may lead to a 7 figure business, or just challenge your brain, may make you think quicker, better, or even save you years in the rat race.
Time-Variable Activities
Socializing
A good socializing session can motivate you and skyrocket focus and productivity.
A bad socializing session can derail you for hours and introduce wayward thinking.
Food
A good meal when distracted by hunger can make the next few hours focused and energized.
A bad meal makes you lethargic and brain fogged for hours.
Sleep
An extra hour of sleep when sleep deprived may make what would take 3 to 4 hours of work take only 1 hour after a good rest, returning time to you.
Oversleeping, poor sleep habits, may eat up time in the mornings and evenings, or cause lethargy and lack of focus that causes delays throughout the day beyond the 7 to 8 hours counted for sleep.
Time-Neutral Activities
Labor
With labor, your value for time is set in stone. $8/hour is 8 dollars an hour. This is about as neutral as it can get, but varying work environments can still affect your perception of time.
Time-Negative Activities
(Obviously, we already know these are "a waste of time" but my theory elaborates that we waste more time than just the hours scrolling)
Porn
An hour spent in porn is not an hour. You feel tired for hours later, you have reinforced the habit making it harder to break in the future, and you have hurt your ability to socialize with others. You have also lost the opportunity to use that hour more productively.
Videogames
An hour spent in video games also derails focus, uses up your dopamine, and makes you more tired in the future, causing residual negative effects. It also reinforces the habit, losing time in the future.
Reddit / TikTok / Media
An hour spent on Reddit is not an hour. It is 3 - 4 hours of feeling bored, frustrated, and microdosing cortisol from other people's stress, harming your body and ability to focus, turning your emotions and thinking more insecure and negative.
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Hours at different times of the day have different values for different activities (and varies depending on person too, eg. nightowls vs early birds). 2 hours in the morning is not equivalent to 2 hours in the afternoon.
Your brain accumulates fatigue throughout the day, so 1 hour of productive work on a fresh mind is equal to for 4 hours on a fatigued brain in the late evening.
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And even the seasons of a year or ages of a man's lifetime have an impact.
Being wealthy in your 20s is more valuable since you have several decades to enjoy it, while being wealthy at the end of your life means you may die at any time.
the 30 years from 60 to 90 are different from those aged 30 to 60.
Waiting until you have retired to pursue your dreams may mean less time to do them, while fighting an aging brain.
Having the years from 30 - 60 to pursue your creative dreams is much more valuable.
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Yes, I know this is just another way of re-hashing "be productive! minmax your time!" but I think seeing how you use your time in a way that shows that it has costs, it has residual benefits or negative effects, can make us more mindful of how we use our time, and the "time wasted" on entertaining activities is not just those few hours spent on it, but impacts the rest of our day and life.
There's probably already a time management book that has the same concept, I just thought about this recently and wanted to share. I've been pondering recently about the scarce but illusory nature of time. How one person's busy can seem like another person's lightweight. How the people with the busiest schedules actually get the most done, while the NEETS with all the time in the world don't do anything.
So with school started I began thinking about how do other people seem to do so much more in a busy schedule? I think time is not the same for everyone, and especially for how you spend each unit of time.
"An hour is not an hour"
TIME ROI Theory: How to get more hours per day
Intro: Obviously there's not enough time to do everything we want to do in a day, but there's enough time to do the most important things. And like in a video game where once you find what loophole or action yields the most results, spending most of your time grinding that will get you way farther ahead. If you spend your time doing the things that give you the highest yields, your life will skyrocket faster ahead than every one else's, regardless of how "busy" you seem. This post seeks to exploit the use of time for maximum benefits. Just like we wouldn't spend money in a depreciating asset, we wouldn't want to spend our precious time on things that actually cost us more time and stress later on down the line.
Theory: Each unit of time is not equivalent. Based on how you spend that unit of time, you get more focus and energy, making you more efficient, adding time to your day. Some actions have negative or positive residual benefits over time. This gives the perception that you have more or less time than other people.
---------
Time-Positive Activities
Meditation
An hour spent meditating actually saves you time and returns time back to you. It prevents 3 - 4 hours of procrastinating, and 3 - 4 hours of confusion and mistakes while working. An hour spent meditating theoretically adds 7 hours back to your life.
Exercise
An hour spent exercising improves oxygenation and focus for 24 hours, so you receive residual benefits or "dividends" for more than just the 1 hour spent. The benefits are cumulative and add up over a lifetime.
Creativity
An hour spent on a creative pursuit that may lead to a 7 figure business, or just challenge your brain, may make you think quicker, better, or even save you years in the rat race.
Time-Variable Activities
Socializing
A good socializing session can motivate you and skyrocket focus and productivity.
A bad socializing session can derail you for hours and introduce wayward thinking.
Food
A good meal when distracted by hunger can make the next few hours focused and energized.
A bad meal makes you lethargic and brain fogged for hours.
Sleep
An extra hour of sleep when sleep deprived may make what would take 3 to 4 hours of work take only 1 hour after a good rest, returning time to you.
Oversleeping, poor sleep habits, may eat up time in the mornings and evenings, or cause lethargy and lack of focus that causes delays throughout the day beyond the 7 to 8 hours counted for sleep.
Time-Neutral Activities
Labor
With labor, your value for time is set in stone. $8/hour is 8 dollars an hour. This is about as neutral as it can get, but varying work environments can still affect your perception of time.
Time-Negative Activities
(Obviously, we already know these are "a waste of time" but my theory elaborates that we waste more time than just the hours scrolling)
Porn
An hour spent in porn is not an hour. You feel tired for hours later, you have reinforced the habit making it harder to break in the future, and you have hurt your ability to socialize with others. You have also lost the opportunity to use that hour more productively.
Videogames
An hour spent in video games also derails focus, uses up your dopamine, and makes you more tired in the future, causing residual negative effects. It also reinforces the habit, losing time in the future.
Reddit / TikTok / Media
An hour spent on Reddit is not an hour. It is 3 - 4 hours of feeling bored, frustrated, and microdosing cortisol from other people's stress, harming your body and ability to focus, turning your emotions and thinking more insecure and negative.
---------
Hours at different times of the day have different values for different activities (and varies depending on person too, eg. nightowls vs early birds). 2 hours in the morning is not equivalent to 2 hours in the afternoon.
Your brain accumulates fatigue throughout the day, so 1 hour of productive work on a fresh mind is equal to for 4 hours on a fatigued brain in the late evening.
---------
And even the seasons of a year or ages of a man's lifetime have an impact.
Being wealthy in your 20s is more valuable since you have several decades to enjoy it, while being wealthy at the end of your life means you may die at any time.
the 30 years from 60 to 90 are different from those aged 30 to 60.
Waiting until you have retired to pursue your dreams may mean less time to do them, while fighting an aging brain.
Having the years from 30 - 60 to pursue your creative dreams is much more valuable.
----
Yes, I know this is just another way of re-hashing "be productive! minmax your time!" but I think seeing how you use your time in a way that shows that it has costs, it has residual benefits or negative effects, can make us more mindful of how we use our time, and the "time wasted" on entertaining activities is not just those few hours spent on it, but impacts the rest of our day and life.
There's probably already a time management book that has the same concept, I just thought about this recently and wanted to share. I've been pondering recently about the scarce but illusory nature of time. How one person's busy can seem like another person's lightweight. How the people with the busiest schedules actually get the most done, while the NEETS with all the time in the world don't do anything.
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