Free time to think is a call option on future interesting opportunities. When you have free time built into your schedule, you have the headspace and bandwidth to dream up and pursue high upside ideas. Time is our most precious asset. At age 20, you probably have about 2 billion seconds left assuming you live to 80. Most of us fail to realize the value of this asset until it is gone.
Welcome to the second half of 2023. If you've kept up your New Year's resolutions and feel on track, great! If not, that's ok, because even if the best time to start was 6 months ago, the second best time is today.
Today, I'd like to share a distillation of my 10 favorite ideas from the 52 newsletters I've written so far this year.
The ideas covered: Spotlight Effect, 1-1-1 Method, Eisenhower Matrix, Surfer Mentality, Feynman Technique, 4 Types of Luck, Trap of the Extraordinary, Character Invention, Think Day, and Time Billionaire.