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A few hours each day can add up to a substantial amount of time. This reflection asks what happens when some of that time goes toward learning and creating. The point is to make room for work that matters to you.
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Original recording: TikTok, 2020-09-28.
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Let's talk about what we are doing with the little time that we all have in this world, which makes up our life. Now, while some of us are spending three hours a day, 1,068 hours a year, and 75,000 hours over the span of 70 years on average absorbing sensationalized news, which does nothing for our future or humanity, there are the innovators who are spending two hours a day changing the world. Now, there is no greater use of time than creating and innovating something that will impact the lives of many after we are gone from this planet. This may be writing a book, teaching, art, filmmaking, engineering, designing, discovering, or philosophy. Remember, my friends, no great mind made the world a better place by being bitter, name-calling, and absorbing hateful, divisive rhetoric. They started with the question, how can I fix this problem?
