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If You Don’t Make It to the Finish Line, Does it Even Count?
How to make the most of your finite time on this planet.
Are you someone who wants to try everything?
I certainly am. My hobbies and career choices have run the gamut from crocheting to coding. They have carried me from garages and production facilities to restaurants and offices, and even to the high seas. I’ve done manual labor jobs and knowledge worker jobs and everything in between.
Well, maybe I’m not quite at everything level, but I’ve tried a lot of things.
Recently, though, I did some math and calculated that life is a bit too short to actually try everything.
Disappointing, but also enlightening.
If I don’t have enough time to do it all, why waste my time with subpar experiences?
How many days will it take to read everything in your TBR pile?
It all started when I realized I own a lot of books that I’ve never read. My To-Be-Read list contained over 400 titles. Even if I made my most heroic attempt to get through it, that would take years for me to read! And let’s face it, I only have a finite amount of reading time left in my life. Shouldn’t I be a bit more selective about what…
