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This post gives me hope. And a rekindled desire to learn Spanish. I just wish I coped with hot weather better.
Some areas, even in the South, are not that hot even during summertime.
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> But "why" is still a good question, and it remains unanswered. Because maintenance takes time and it's not handled by your parents anymore.
And yet people in certain European countries and tons of other parts in the world with different work attitudes can have tons of free time, despite having children et al.
I've got a different answer. People are "busy" because they fill every waking hour with something to do. If they ever find themselves without something to do, they make something up or change something so it provides some perceived benefit and takes more time. For example, I dated a girl who said she had no free time, despite only working 1 job part time and basically never going out. I eventually found out it was be…
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That is of course true, but do you have to think about the shopping now, when you know you will do it at 20:00?
This is why I like having a good todo-list and note-taking system, I can offload those concerns and not think about them until they're needed. I then have plenty of spare capacity for both generalised planning and chilling out.
For me, note-taking just ends up being something else to worry about. Particularly when it comes to work.
Much of this doesn't apply to me, but mostly because I've been implicitly trying to avoid it. I don't do my taxes because I can buy an accountants time, but I can't buy more "time". It's another reason I don't want a huge collection of "stuff". "Stuff" takes your time. I don't have a car for this reason, and I live in a city that doesn't require one. But the article is motivating me to be more explicit about the thin…
"Well for four to six hours we do X,Y,Z very focused and intensely and then we rest and think subconsciously/do nothing".
"Wait you mean you're only doing this halftime?"
"No we chose to do it this way because there's some decent research that suggests this is both the most efficient way of doing it and the most healthy way of doing it. It's a full time job."
"Ok, thanks."
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But if you can manage to not think about it until say 19:50, you will feel less busy. Working on your current task with 100% dedication, spending your breaks looking out the window just watching the birds land on the branches of the cherry tree will make you feel less busy, I guarantee it. Edit: Not that I ever manage that myself of course but the theory is sound.
I can't say that I'm perfect at this, but I've found that to-do lists are a great way tool for helping me not think about things: Knowing that something is on my list and so I won't forget about it allows me to push it out of my head far more effectively.
That said, there's a caveat here - as they say, "out of sight, out of mind", and I find it too easy to defend from being overworked by simply ignoring the todo list and not looking at it. This is dangerous and leads to failed obligations.
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Agreed - to-do lists help a lot, along with judicious use of reminders (a simple prompt helps a lot). At least for me the key is to aggressively wean my to-do list, keeping items on it that I'm highly likely to complete in the next few days, as opposed to an ever-growing wish list.
Yep. There's a value to also keeping a maybe someday list but a to do list really does need to be tractable. I've known people who kept these ever-expanding multi-page to do lists and never got anything done. I'm really not much of a productivity "system" person but David Allen has some good ideas around completing quick tasks, to do lists, breaking things up into manageable chunks, calendars being for events that ar…
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> 2. Cooking: 3 h (who the hell cooks three times a day?) People who enjoy cooking, and people who actually care for their health.
I think the meals I have are quite healthy, I just cook once a day. Also, if you enjoy cooking, wouldn't you add it to the free time because it's a hobby?
I've got a different answer. People are "busy" because they fill every waking hour with something to do. If they ever find themselves without something to do, they make something up or change something so it provides some perceived benefit and takes more time. For example, I dated a girl who said she had no free time, despite only working 1 job part time and basically never going out. I eventually found out it was be…
So I guess some people may be "busy" by inventing activities to avoid boredom (I'm pretty sure I know a lot of people like that), but others would love to have more free time to spend it on even more things they're already interested in.