Thursday, April 10, 2014
Personal Philosophy: The Use of Time
Time. It is immortal. It is unchanging. Therein lies the value of time. Every person is given an amount of time. this amount is undefined, and unknown. It is from this realization that I conclude, that is something takes 10 minutes, just do it.
Humanity squanders time it is given over and over again. Weather this be through procrastination or just simple dismissal of those little things so easily taken care of. Perhaps the worst example of this wasting of time would be in the teenage years. The pending question is what why would this be the worst waste of time in human life. The reason is simple: teenagers tend to procrastinate or put all any work or assignments given to them. Granted this is not an all inclusive statement. But often enough to be true. What makes this a waste of time and not a reappropriation of it to another area is that most of what is being put off can be done in 10 minutes or less. Whether this be homework or chores.
Ideally we would waste no time. But that is and idealism and not a reality. Even this paper, which might have taken a mere 10 minutes to do (were it apparent what to wright ere it was written), falls into that category of being delayed though not for as long a time as other tasks may have been.
But doing just doing something if you can do it 10 minutes does not mean don't do it well. Doing something poorly is rather a greater waste of time then simply not doing it. Time in itself is precious, taking 10 minutes now to free up time later is priceless. So if what you have to do can be done in 10 minutes, just do it.
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Very true, though are you focusing only on small tasks or is this idea applicable to the larger world and space of time as well?
ReplyDeleteA bit too brief and general. This needs to be focused more on you
Also, this paper should not have taken a mere 10 minutes...minimum was 2 pages on a standard Word doc.
Wright v. write
Weather v. whether