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1 --- 2 title: "How to Spend Time" 3 date: 2023-04-29T23:36:25-04:00 4 draft: false 5 references: 6 - title: "What Do You Want to Make Real in the World? — Anna Havron" 7 url: https://www.annahavron.com/blog/what-do-you-want-to-make-real-in-the-world 8 date: 2023-04-30T03:38:36Z 9 file: www-annahavron-com-34fw9w.txt 10 - title: "Sunday Firesides: To-Dos, the Rent We Pay For Living | The Art of Manliness" 11 url: https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/sunday-firesides-to-dos-the-rent-we-pay-for-living/ 12 date: 2023-04-30T03:43:27Z 13 file: www-artofmanliness-com-6lxmwc.txt 14 - title: "How to Slow Down Time | Valet." 15 url: https://www.valetmag.com/the-handbook/living/how-to-slow-down-time.php 16 date: 2023-07-05T16:08:47Z 17 file: www-valetmag-com-b1tpcf.txt 18 - title: "Spend Exactly None Of Your Time Killing Time" 19 url: https://deadspin.com/spend-exactly-none-of-your-time-killing-time-1831777904 20 date: 2023-04-30T03:40:23Z 21 file: deadspin-com-cjpmjw.txt 22 --- 23 24 Broadly, three categories of productive activities: 25 26 * **Chores** -- things you have to do to maintain stasis. 27 * [Sunday Firesides: To-Dos, the Rent We Pay For Living | The Art of Manliness][1] 28 * **Improving the world** -- not in some grand sense necessarily, but activities that create lasting improvement: building things, fixing things, getting rid of things. 29 * [What Do You Want to Make Real in the World? — Anna Havron][2] 30 * **Improving yourself** -- things you do to make you better at doing other things. 31 32 > Book smarts, street smarts. Learning by study, learning by doing. 33 > Read about it, apply it, see it in action, take that practical experience 34 > back to your reading, deepen your understanding, take that deeper 35 > understanding back to your activity ... it's a never-ending cycle, each 36 > aspect of learning feeding the other. 37 > 38 > -- [_The Slight Edge_][3] ([p. 180][4]) 39 40 > Information becomes _knowledge_ -- personal, embodied, verified -- only when we put it to use ... 41 > Creating new things is not only one of the most deeply fulfilling things we can do, it can also have a positive impact on others -- by inspiring, entertaining, or educating them. 42 > 43 > -- [_Building a Second Brain_][5] ([p. 48-49][6]) 44 45 [1]: https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/sunday-firesides-to-dos-the-rent-we-pay-for-living/ 46 [2]: https://www.annahavron.com/blog/what-do-you-want-to-make-real-in-the-world 47 [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2777748W/The_Slight_Edge?edition=key%3A/books/OL9820911M 48 [4]: slight_edge_180.pdf 49 [5]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/building-a-second-brain-a-proven-method-to-organize-your-digital-life-and-unlock-your-creative-potential-tiago-forte/18265370 50 [6]: second_brain_48.pdf 51 52 {{<dither graph1.png "500x">}}Yellow-highlighted graph where time invested in ‘Improve yourself’ curves skyward, ‘Improve the world’ climbs steadily, and ‘Chores’ stays flat.{{</dither>}} 53 54 _(This would imply that "improving yourself" is the most valuable use of time, but I actually think it's something like the opposite.)_ 55 56 --- 57 58 Experiences: 59 60 * Routine 61 * Novel 62 * ["How to Slow Down Time | Valet."][7] 63 64 [7]: https://www.valetmag.com/the-handbook/living/how-to-slow-down-time.php 65 66 Leisure: 67 68 * Most of my hobbies are hard (satisfying but somewhat stressful) 69 * I don't really have leisure activities besides reading fiction 70 * I spend a lot of time mindlessly scrolling my phone 71 * What do I love to do that is relaxing & that I don't feel a constant need to improve at? 72 * [Spend Exactly None Of Your Time Killing Time][8] 73 * _Rapt_, p. 108 74 75 [8]: https://deadspin.com/spend-exactly-none-of-your-time-killing-time-1831777904 76 77 Sleep: 78 79 * Getting 7+ hours is important. It can feel like a waste of time when it's 11:30 and you're on a roll, but an extra hour of sleep can mean the difference between a good day and a bad one. 80 * If you're tired mid-day, just take a nap. 81 82 > Napping makes you smarter. Seriously. Lots of studies show napping improves alertness and cognitive performance in the af noon. As usual, we've tested the science ourselves. 83 > 84 > You don’t even have to fall asleep. Just lying down and resting for ten to twenty minutes can be a great way to recharge. 85 > 86 > -- [_Make Time_][9] ([p. 232-233][10]) 87 88 [9]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/make-time-how-to-focus-on-what-matters-every-day-jake-knapp/12094196?ean=9780525572428 89 [10]: make_time_232.pdf