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Time is our most irreplaceable asset—we cannot buy more of it. We can only strive to waste as little as possible.
Stephen Hanselman • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Before, time was just the medium in which life unfolded, the stuff that life was made of. Afterwards, once ‘time’ and ‘life’ had been separated in most people’s minds, time became a thing that you used – and it’s this shift that serves as the precondition for all the uniquely modern ways in which we struggle with time today.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Isabel on time:
... See more“I tend to be quite good at losing track of time compared to the average person—a blessing and a curse. I can get lost in a task and have hours zoom by me like seconds. I can fall into a conversation and only get pulled out of it when my stomach cries out in hunger or I suddenly feel so parched that I need to excuse myself. It is a g
the more you focus on using time well, the more each day begins to feel like something you have to get through, en route to some calmer, better, more fulfilling point in the future, which never actually arrives. The problem is one of instrumentalisation. To use time, by definition, is to treat it instrumentally, as a means to an end, and of course
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