How to lose time and money

A corollary is when it feels like you've just wasted a bunch of time, when in fact you got a lot of work done. A common example of this is when you spend 18 hours trying a dozen solutions to a very hard problem, with none of them working. At the end of it all you tend to feel like a failure because nothing worked, but in reality you went through the very necessary process of narrowing your solution space…

"People fright at the concept of losing their money, yet they slave away their time without a second thought." -Seneca the Younger, from Letters from a Stoic (highly recommended) I think slaving away doing something you hate is far more harmful than "wasting" time having fun. I get more out of playing hacky sack and/or listening to podcasts than any homework or school work. So, in relation to this article, I think we should maybe consider "losing time" as doing…

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I submitted this because there seems to be a lot of interest in PG essays here, but I didn't really like this one... am curious what others will think. Parts of it didn't ring true: I wouldn't regret spending the whole day in front of the TV because I was having fun (as opposed to doing work), but because it _isn't_ much fun, it's just wasting time. And while it has been many years since I trained in anthropology, my…