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Let's explore the expression "time and effort" as in "I have put so much time and effort into doing this."

As most of us are well aware of, time is the scarcest resource we have in this life.

But what is effort?

Effort is the energy you can project at a particular point in time.

As you grow older you can project less and less energy into the production of value for others or yourself. That is, the amount of energy you can project monotonically decreases as a function of time.

As a derivative of time, thus, effort/energy is the second scarcest resource you have.

Be kind with your future self (and your heirs) and store that time and energy into something that can hold their spent value forever.

Don't let time thieves steal the most precious resources you have.

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Howie Zats 2y ago

👏👏👍

franny 2y ago

This.⚡️⚡️

paulo 2y ago

Once I understood this there was no going back

franny 2y ago

Thank you so much for reminding 🫶🫱🏻‍🫲🏼💜

nobody 2y ago

Didn’t knew you were a motivational speaker my friend 😎😎😎

paulo 2y ago

Haha!

It’s just infotainment, lol (hate that word)

nobody 2y ago

I do hate it too 😂.

Paulo is the new Tony Robins 😎😂

This is a great read in the same direction of your post : http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html

paulo 2y ago

Yeah, it’s related.

Jeff Booth helped understand this and for that I’ll be forever grateful.

nobody 2y ago

Just googled him, share with me anything you find useful !

Here is another great read about life generally : https://www.navalmanack.com/

JoySun 2y ago

I don't agree with that definition of effort and that as we get older, we can project less and less energy into the production of value.

paulo 2y ago

Hey, so you think that you have the same energy to work when you’re 22 and 82?

JoySun 2y ago

So are you only talking about physical strength as energy in this sense?

paulo 2y ago

I’m talking about your vital energy.

What came to mind when you read what I wrote?

JoySun 2y ago

Well, I'm thinking the older we get, the more knowledge and life experience we have, the more wisdom we also have, the more value we can provide.

paulo 2y ago

I agree that those are valuable things. And I don’t discount them.

But if you’re too old you’ll need somebody else energy to put that knowledge and experience into action.

JoySun 2y ago

Agree.

I think we weren't talking about the same thing by saying "energy" and "value".

paulo 2y ago

I need to keep thinking about this to find a better word than “value”.

Thank you for challenging my ideas.

🤗

JoySun 2y ago

Sure thing. 😊