What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
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What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
It’s a good bet these present-day hobbies will seed future industries. What the smartest people do on the weekends is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.
Chris Dixon • What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
When research is your leisure activity, you’ll end up making connections between your existing interests and new ideas or topics. Everything gets pulled into the orbit of your intellectual curiosity. You can go deeper and deeper into a narrow topic, one that seems fascinatingly trivial and end up learning about the big topics:
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Yet it’s surely no coincidence that hobbies have acquired this embarrassing reputation in an era so committed to using time instrumentally. In an age of instrumentalization, the hobbyist is a subversive: he insists that some things are worth doing for themselves alone, despite offering no payoffs in terms of productivity or profit.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
Chris Dixon • What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
Hobbies are what the smartest people spend their time on when they aren’t constrained by near-term financial goals.