Your Time is Your Life

We should treat the idea of wasting or killing time as a reprehensible waste of life. Every minute of your life is a chance to thrive and flourish.

If you live for eighty years, you’ll have a little more than 700,000 hours in your life, a third of which you’ll spend asleep. Of the fewer than 500,000 hours you’ll spend awake, a typical education and full-time job will swallow more than 100,000. Accounting for early childhood, domestic chores, and illness, a person who lives for eighty years has less…