Why You Waste Time

you want to be finding things that kind of waste time but that can have something productive behind [Music] it so somebody asked how can you stop wasting time if you're not living the life that you want to well I would kind of flip that question around and go the answer is to live the life that you want to and then you won't be wasting time so wasting time there's a bit of a prejudice against it wasting time in some ways has a perp can have a purpose behind it I frequently waste time in the sense

that I let my mind wander I read things that really have nothing to do with my work at that for that particular day I happen to like sports a lot and I'm reading about the inside things going on in basketball or baseball such things that basically are wasting time you know but it's okay because a it relaxes you and we need relax from all the tension but B things sometimes infiltrate your brain from these somewhat irrelevant things that you wasted your time and they actually enrich your the soil and your thoughts and they bring something

they contribute something but the point is I lead a life where I do have a sense of purpose where I do know what I'm what I'm supposed to be doing so it's okay to waste time the problem is when you're wasting time don't know what your life is is about and things that you're doing to waste time cannot possibly enrich your brain so what I would like you to think about is you have you can't be on tense every moment you do have to let your mind wander but if you do it with certain things

they can actually benefit you in some way so instead of wasting time with online porn or video games or things like that although sometimes video games might have a positive impact I don't know I don't play very many of them so I don't know but you want to be finding things that kind of waste time but that can have something productive behind it you know so you take up a game for instance you play chess I once tried to pick up the Asian game of Go which is very difficult it's a real brain drain for

me because I was writing the war book I bought a pool table and I try to teach myself pool so you go you you play pool you learn chess you learn back him you learn go this Asian game you take up an activity like that where it's kind of relaxing because you don't have to focus on it you kind of waste time but also it does something else to you so I bought a pool table I'm not say a lot of people I bought the cheapest pool table was only $500 it was like from an

old bar it had like beer stains on it and it was the kind that you put quarters in but it fit in my garage um so it wasn't a fancy pool table but I got this when I was writing the war book because every afternoon I would waste time playing pool but it was a FOC it was focusing and learning how to develop some skill on that it took my mind away from my book but it taught me some things about strategy the other thing I learned about myself in this wasting time was whenever I

would be brilliant at pool when I was by myself but when someone would come over and they wanted to play against me and compete I wasn't very good I learned that I don't handle pressure so well in games sometimes anyway there can be productive time wasters things where you're developing some kind of skill and it doesn't it's not so intense where you don't feel like you're always focusing so hard but it enriches your brain so I would really recommend figuring those kinds of things out the other thing is to find out what your life is

for to figure out what your career path is and then you can waste time doing whatever you want you can play video games up the Wazoo it's fine it's okay to do that several hours a day you don't feel like you're wasting your time what you feel like is I'm relaxing my brain when I'm finished I'm going to go back to my studies of engineering of Science of whatever it is because what happens the depressing thing of wasting your time is you waste your time and you go ah now what am I going to do

oh I guess I'm going to watch this thing on tele Vision now is you it starts becoming a habit where you're wasting more and more time but if you waste time in a in a framework of I've got an hour I'm going to just waste it I don't care what then I get back to when I skill the things I'm learning it doesn't feel so bad so that's my advice to you