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#289 — Time Management for Mortals

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Decision Fatigue - The Art of Making Decisions

There's one specific skill that has to lie at the heart of any approach to time management. It is deciding - making more decisions throughout the day, throughout our lives. For a finite human being, whenever we spend a portion of time on anything, we are making a decision not to spend it on a million other things. You can embrace the fact that you're foregoing certain pleasures or certain theoretically rewarding experiences because whatever you've decided to do with your time instead today. That's how you've chosen to spend aportion of time that you never had any right to expect.

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