> 7) Don’t waste time. Most people waste most of their time, especially in business.
The difficult part of this one is that many businesses employ very intelligent and motivated people to make their products into addictive time sinks. There's a reason so many websites start playing videos immediately upon loading and then automatically load more until you stop them. It has nothing to do with concern for what's best for you as a user or as a human. It takes more determination not to waste time on the internet every year. It's an arms race that Facebook, Netflix, Reddit, Medium, etc are winning.
While sama is doing what he does, most people spend hours tapping and stroking their phones and hours more watching video on a daily basis.
I agree with many of the points but he has somewhat of an age obsession. As someone who probably (statistically) will reach the age of 100, it does not sound very enlightened when only 30. This is not the only article he has lamenting the passing of time.
Also point 6, mostly a good point, reads like it was written for 12 year old; ‘internet’ is the best thing if not used frivolously, which is what that sentence, imho, is supposed to mean.
It's no secret "it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work." The point is "most people pick their career fairly randomly"; to those people, the rest of the advice he gives in #4 is very helpful.
Napoleon Hill would certainly approve of the suggestion to "aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally"- similar to the philosophy Hill promotes: "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past". Unless you were born into a billionaire family and never had to consider goals of the people around you, I'm sure you're aware that most people, even in America, unfortunately, don't believe in themselves very much.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/09/23/survey...
Even ambitious people tend to set goals way lower than they are capable. A person working all day every day to make a million dollars by retirement could probably make a billion in 10 years if they believed it.
> 7) Don’t waste time. Most people waste most of their time, especially in business.
The difficult part of this one is that many businesses employ very intelligent and motivated people to make their products into addictive time sinks. There's a reason so many websites start playing videos immediately upon loading and then automatically load more until you stop them. It has nothing to do with concern for what's best for you as a user or as a human. It takes more determination not to waste time on the internet every year. It's an arms race that Facebook, Netflix, Reddit, Medium, etc are winning.
While sama is doing what he does, most people spend hours tapping and stroking their phones and hours more watching video on a daily basis.