1/ A heuristic for people who lose focus. Always think if your next activity is either going to bring a permanent improvement (learning something useful in the future) or provides an instant dopamine kick with no positive effect in the future.
examples below:👇
examples below:👇
2/ Examples of positive activities that if performed all improve my future somehow: A chat with someone smart, read books, read annual reports, do sports
Negative examples these are activities we spend time and are irrelevant within a minute and provide either harm or no benefit
Negative examples these are activities we spend time and are irrelevant within a minute and provide either harm or no benefit
3/ Negative examples are: Checking constantly news, prices, opinions, fight online, getting distracted with nuance
4/ E.G: What value I can have of me watching the latest price of (x) at 9.15? then at 10 at 11:20 is something else. if the total of time spent by staring at the screen is 1 hour per day? this would be 10 full days in a year, now let's add the other useless activities, it adds up
Once a day is more than enough for checking prices, or when there is an execution to be made, but for a long term holding? what is the use? and the alternative use of time spent on something useful can compound and it does!
