Here you will find some of the greatest quotes about Time understanding.
People who never have enough time are fed the delusion that the solution is time management skills.
What is Time management skills? When a toddler learns to walk, do we call this… space management skills!?
To manage time is to try to manage a huge river you’re swimming in. It not only doesn’t work, it’s conceptually impossible.
Time management is a way to say Life management. And Life management is hard, unnatural, exhausting, impossible to fully achieve, creates expectations, and decreases happiness.
Things just happen, and happen mostly great when you give up control, when you stop managing your life.
With time management we pursue something we don’t need… but also structurally in the wrong way… and we call it by the wrong name.
Never expect a direct effort to control to have a high Success rate – people will resist… because we all feel the importance of adaptability for survival and prefer to keep our options open.
When I see how much time most people spend having fake fun on screens, compared to innovating in the golden age of innovation, travelling our beautiful world, or meeting people, I don’t think we’re having much progress on priorities…
A productive state of Flow can only happen while you’re in Hunter mode. And for this to happen, you have to minimize Self-pressure. This means the least possible to-do lists, reminders, apps, phone, and distractions in general.
Management in general does not increase productivity, the opposite, autonomy, does – including from yourself.
You’re not in a race against time. Time is and will always be your ally.
If you were a factory, you would need time management. But you’re not.
You’re in a constant fight with inertia, and the only way to sometimes win is to be unpredictable, including to yourself.
A factory has limited potential, and it maximizes it through Goals. But you have unlimited potential, and goals just get in the way of accomplishing it.
When the tides are turning, if you have Intuition, you’re Apple, and if you have the spreadsheets, you’re Nokia.
Intuition is just so much more evolutionary mature and powerful than logic that every complex task that can be handled intuitively, should be.
On a personal level, logic will fail most people most of the time.
We need more investors who feel when to say no.
If I say “7 minutes”, you should have an intuitive answer about what you can do that takes exactly 7 minutes. No one even bothered to tell us this skill exists, so we can work on it.
If you go to University, in most majors you sacrifice real-life experience to attend a game-like life simulation. So this is usually a bad time investment, compared to Entrepreneurship.
Only among Entrepreneurs and freelancers have I ever found people with developed time Intuition.
The 9-to-5 workweek is very detrimental to feeling time. It makes this skill seem unimportant to your brain. On the other hand, if you manage your time alone with no support structure, you gradually start to feel it.
Spending an hour watching 120 videos, about 30 seconds each, has no evolutionary parallel.
The brain is very adaptive, but the idea of adaptation is to stick at least for a while.
The more Time understanding you have, the harder it is to be ok with clueless systems wasting time and disregarding natural rhythm.
We deserve a smoother experience, and we should fight for it when possible.
Time understanding will help you feel how your life develops in time. Life will no longer be a static picture of the present, the memories of the past and the thoughts about the future. It will feel a bit more like a continuum and more wholesome.
With Time understanding you will feel when something is too fast, too slow, or too repetitive. It’s like a whole new level of consciousness that keeps you time-healthy.
Religions are a narrow, desperate path to Spirituality, where you give up and outsource it to another entity, one that imposes rules on you, something which hurts your spiritual Intuition.
Time Management is a narrow, desperate path to Time Understanding, when you give up and outsource it to another entity, one that imposes rules on you, something which hurts your time Intuition.
Your logical brain does not trust your intuitive brain, and they cannot work together on any mission. So the moment you start relying on rules, your Intuition goes to sleep.
Build concepts rather than rules!
Constantly learn and adapt.
It’s of paramount importance to ask others the “Time question”: “What do you do all day?” until you have developed your Time Intuition.
Some of your time is so beautiful that it’s no longer quantifiable. The moments that take your breath away, the moments you’ll never forget.
Short-term money is one of the hardest things to earn in life. If I tell you to just make $1000 over the next hour, it’s borderline impossible. But if I ask you to learn something in this hour that will likely bring you +$1000 over the rest of your life, you have thousands of good options. So it’s very easy to earn future money.
The dance in time between hard money today and easy future money is what you need to develop an Intuition about.
Aim very high and not just in monetary terms, but for everything! The higher you aim, the more only the best ideas stay in your option pool.
When you find a good option, the stars will align in your favor – otherwise, it’s not actually good.
Don’t buy the myth that the economy is perfectly balanced and every opportunity is saturated proportionally to its potential.
When possible, simplify things.
Value your time highly in cash, but also be ready and happy to completely donate it when educating yourself, giving back, or finding Meaning.
If you always quit everything boring immediately, you’ll never do boring stuff. Which means you’ll always do different and interesting stuff and build an Intuition … while your peers are still in higher education, cramming.
Quitting is connected to the main defensive skill you need in your life: to say “no” to opportunities or people.
Don’t judge the time value of the past – never obsess about having wasted any single period of time. No pressure on single periods – it’s the repeating stuff that makes up the big picture.
Priceless time always has complete priority.
When something no longer feels a worthy time investment, quit immediately. Learn to say “no” and don’t dwell on the past.
The brain never turns off. If you have to write an email you have already composed in your head, the brain will float elsewhere to search for something more interesting to think about.
In time, Freedom helps you find more Freedom, and money helps you earn more money.
Never be afraid to start from scratch – if the path feels right, progress starts slow but speeds up more than you can imagine.
