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‘“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” “Even though you seize the day, it still will flee; therefore, you must vie with time’s swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink ...
- Memento Mori: Remember That You Will Die. “This is our big mistake: to think we look forward to death. Most of death is already gone. Whatever time has passed is owned by death.”
- Value Your Time More Than Your Possessions. “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
- Be Ruthless To The Things That Don’t Matter. “How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements—how little of your own was left to you.
- Put Your Day Up For Review. “Of all the people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live.”- Seneca. The common thread among Seneca and almost every other great thinker in history was the habit of reflection and a constant scrutinization of one’s character.
Here are 5 tips on how to manage your time like a Stoic. Replace Procrastination With Delayed Gratification. “Putting things off is the greatest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future.”. — Seneca, On The Shortness Of Life. How often do we mutter to ourselves, “I’ll do it ...
Sep 1, 2014 · Millennia before the now-tired adage that “time is money,” Seneca cautions that we fail to treat time as a valuable resource, even though it is arguably our most precious and least renewable one: People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.
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- Time is only short if you waste it. Whilst Seneca writes about the finite nature of time, he argues that it’s our wastefulness of time that makes it short
- Create immediate rewards for long-term goals. In On the Shortness of Life (Audiobook), Seneca writes: “Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future.
- Contemplate Death. According to Seneca, the real reason why we waste so much of our time isn’t poor time management. It’s that we often forget that we are going to die
- Recognize that busyness is the ultimate distraction. Contrary to popular opinion, Seneca argues that busyness is an illusion of productivity that actually steals our valuable time
Dec 20, 2014 · “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy,” he observed in ...
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Sep 21, 2021 · Time is the most valuable asset someone can possess as you can never get it back. Stephen R. Covey, the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, states “the key is in not spending time, but investing in it”. As previously mentioned, once time is used as an asset for which one can invest in, it is then that true freedom is ...
