From an email this morning
Let me remind you that 15 minutes a day is 5,475 minutes a year. That’s 91 hours. That’s more than TWO full-time week’s of work.
Throw 30 minutes a day at reading and you’re at over 10,000 minutes and nearly 200 hours of reading. That’s a MONTH of full-time work reading PER YEAR. If you read 40 pages an hour, that’s 8,000 (!) pages or 40 200-page books a year.
So…
#grownostr #functionallyilliterate #read
You need to link a wallet I was going to zap this.
When someone says “I’m too busy” it just means that what they are asked to do is not a priority to them. There are 168 hours in a week.
- 8 hours a day sleeping = 112 hours / week.
- 8 hours a day working = 56 hours per week.
- 1 hour a day doing housework (cooking, cleaning etc) = 49 hours per week
- 2 hours per day for sports (if you have kids) 35 hours per week.
Make it a priority. When you track where you are spending your time on useless activities, you can make time for things that are important.
One exercise I do with my kids is enable the screen time feature on their iPhone and console gaming systems. I show them objectively how much time they are spending on these activities, and ask them if they spent event 15 min of that time practicing their sport (hockey / baseball / training) how much they think they would improve at their favorite activity.
