A short YouTube video by Nir Eyal arguing that time is a scarce, nonrenewable resource while money can be replenished. Eyal urges people to be generous with money but "cheap" with time—budgeting time intentionally to distinguish traction from distraction and to become the person they want to be.
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All of us have the same amount of time in each and every day. And so we kind of get this backwards in society, right? When it comes to money, we're very protective. We put our money in safes, we clip coupons, we split checks with our friends when we go out to lunch. We do all these things to be very, very cheap with our money. But in fact, it should be exactly the opposite. We should be generous with our money, because we can always make more. But we should be cheap with our time, because time is a truly limited resource. We only have so much time on earth. And so when we do that, when we actually budget our time, when we say, here's how I want to spend my time so that I can be the kind of person I want to become, that's the only way to know the difference between traction and distraction.