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You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by falcolas »

firasd wrote: post #6

“lots of the traps within ‘Plenty of Time’ are not due to us choosing other priorities. The traps are choosing comfort.” I think this hits the nail on the head. It's a mistake to think it's too late and what remains of life is going to rush you by, and it's also a mistake to think that time is unlimited. The way I resolve these two contrary directions is to figure out: when you're in the moment, what do you want to s…

> what do you want to spend your life doing?

Enjoying the life I have built for myself. After all, there's not really "Plenty of Time" left...

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by csallen »

nostromo wrote: post #10

You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. > But days gone by are days gone by. What can you do from here – from today – to commit fewer errors? Because the truth is you don’t have plenty of time. These motivational posts tend to sound kind of sad and hollow to me. I love to lift weights myself, but if someone told me that a day spent with friends or family and not in the…

What's the point in spending your entire life just so you can look back in your final months and be pleased? I can't think of a reason why your happiness at the end of your life is any more important than your happiness in the middle of your life. Rather, a life well-spent is one in which the sum total of your happiness over time was at a max. That means factoring in what's important to you now, even if it won't matter to you later on.

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by falcolas »

csallen wrote: post #12
nostromo wrote: post #10

You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. > But days gone by are days gone by. What can you do from here – from today – to commit fewer errors? Because the truth is you don’t have plenty of time. These motivational posts tend to sound kind of sad and hollow to me. I love to lift weights myself, but if someone told me that a day spent with friends or family and not in the…

What's the point in spending your entire life just so you can look back in your final months and be pleased? I can't think of a reason why your happiness at the end of your life is any more important than your happiness in the middle of your life. Rather, a life well-spent is one in which the sum total of your happiness over time was at a max. That means factoring in what's important to you now , even if it won't mat…

> I can't think of a reason why your happiness at the end of your life [...] is any more important than your happiness in the middle of your life.

Especially since it's not guaranteed. There's a lot of people who never made it to the "end of their life", and a lot more people who had a retirement planned that they had to give up because life ended up having other plans for them.

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by NhanH »

nostromo wrote: post #10

You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. > But days gone by are days gone by. What can you do from here – from today – to commit fewer errors? Because the truth is you don’t have plenty of time. These motivational posts tend to sound kind of sad and hollow to me. I love to lift weights myself, but if someone told me that a day spent with friends or family and not in the…

> Does anyone really think that when they're an old man looking back, they're going to wish they had spent more time in the gym to deadlift 800 instead of "just" 700? Or will they wish they had spent more time enjoying life and taking it a bit easier?

Why do we have to be an old man to look back? Or why would regrets there be any more valid than regrets now?

I can say with reasonably certainty that plenty of us have looked back and regret things we didn't do when we were younger. So yes, at least I do wish I've spent more time doing certain things.

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by jbhatab »

nostromo wrote: post #10

You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. > But days gone by are days gone by. What can you do from here – from today – to commit fewer errors? Because the truth is you don’t have plenty of time. These motivational posts tend to sound kind of sad and hollow to me. I love to lift weights myself, but if someone told me that a day spent with friends or family and not in the…

"You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life." this is exactly the opposite conclusion to be derived from this if you are trying to achieve a goal.

Yes it's ok to live and enjoy the little things, but if you want to achieve a goal.... you don't have time. Deal with it and work within those parameters. Every second you spend enjoying your time with a beer and family is time someone else is stepping up.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but it just is. Maybe you want to spend time with family. But just as easily you could be forever unfulfilled because you are hyper ambitious and never applied yourself fully.

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by dominotw »

nostromo wrote: post #10

You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. > But days gone by are days gone by. What can you do from here – from today – to commit fewer errors? Because the truth is you don’t have plenty of time. These motivational posts tend to sound kind of sad and hollow to me. I love to lift weights myself, but if someone told me that a day spent with friends or family and not in the…

> an old man looking back

Man this has to be the greatest overestimation of human memory ever.

People don't remember shit from like 20 yrs ago, heck I don't even remember 99% of stuff from like even 2 yrs ago. Even if they do at that their age , they prbly don't care about what happened like 50 yrs ago.

My memory of events from my life has changed so much over the years that I don't trust that they actually happened in the way I remember them now.

>they're going to wish they had spent more time in the gym to deadlift 800 instead

this is more likely than looking back because you have your body constantly reminding you how fucked up it is due to neglect.

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by nostromo »

csallen wrote: post #12
nostromo wrote: post #10

You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. > But days gone by are days gone by. What can you do from here – from today – to commit fewer errors? Because the truth is you don’t have plenty of time. These motivational posts tend to sound kind of sad and hollow to me. I love to lift weights myself, but if someone told me that a day spent with friends or family and not in the…

What's the point in spending your entire life just so you can look back in your final months and be pleased? I can't think of a reason why your happiness at the end of your life is any more important than your happiness in the middle of your life. Rather, a life well-spent is one in which the sum total of your happiness over time was at a max. That means factoring in what's important to you now , even if it won't mat…

I totally agree with you. In fact, the thrust of my comment is that enjoying life today is undervalued.

I bring up the "looking back" angle only because fear of regret is a central theme to these types of "your life is ending one minute at a time" motivational posts. And it's largely false -- you will not regret having enjoyed the simple things in life.

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by dwaltrip »

csallen wrote: post #12
nostromo wrote: post #10

You know, once in a while, you should take a break from objectives and just enjoy life. > But days gone by are days gone by. What can you do from here – from today – to commit fewer errors? Because the truth is you don’t have plenty of time. These motivational posts tend to sound kind of sad and hollow to me. I love to lift weights myself, but if someone told me that a day spent with friends or family and not in the…

What's the point in spending your entire life just so you can look back in your final months and be pleased? I can't think of a reason why your happiness at the end of your life is any more important than your happiness in the middle of your life. Rather, a life well-spent is one in which the sum total of your happiness over time was at a max. That means factoring in what's important to you now , even if it won't mat…

Huh. I've thought about this issue and related issues many times, and I've already arrived at a similar philosophy to what I'm guessing undergirds your post.

However, for some reason, the way you described it combined with my current mental state caused something to click for me. Thank you for posting.

Re: You Don’t Have “Plenty of Time”

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Post by rrecuero »

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #5

This rings very true. It's very easy to do workaholic coding and neglect everything else and the trouble is that in the process of neglecting things long enough, you forget how valuable they were.

Well said. In the end the only thing that matters are human connections. Achievement is a distant second
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