Daily Productive Sharing 1276 - Become a Time Billionaire
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Joan Westenberg understands that time doesn’t accumulate, nor can it be regenerated. Time cannot be lent out to earn interest; it can only be used or left unused:
- For her, becoming a “time billionaire” starts with one premise: every hour originally belongs to her. She had simply forgotten who owns the account.
- In finance, arbitrage means profiting from market inefficiencies. In life, time arbitrage is about exploiting differences in attention in the same way.
- Every automated SOP, every task managed by a virtual assistant, every decision delegated—that’s time arbitrage. Every decision she no longer needs to handle herself tomorrow is time arbitrage.
- She realizes you can’t optimize efficiency to the extreme inside a system designed to scatter your attention. The only solution is to exit that system.
- As Graham Duncan said, a “time billionaire” is someone with a billion seconds of life left—that’s roughly 31 years.
- She used to measure wealth in absolute terms, but time wealth is always relative—relative to obligations, autonomy, and happiness.
- A teenager facing an entire summer without meetings is wealthier than a CEO flying in a private jet from one crisis to the next.
- To attain time abundance, she has to make time “stand still.” This means creating buffers for herself.
- Time wealth doesn’t simply mean working less; it means controlling your time stack: when you work, how you work, what you work on, who you answer to, and what future you’re working toward.
- To her, control is the ultimate luxury, and autonomy is the ultimate dividend.
- She realizes people overcommit because they’re avoiding a moral question: if no one told them what to do, what would they choose to do?
- Becoming a time billionaire isn’t merely about owning your time; it’s about courageously and honestly facing that question.
- She’s noticed that true time billionaires do something else: they concentrate their attention. They stay focused, protect this asset, and invest their attention like capital—with caution, intention, and an eye on long-term returns.
- In this sense, time billionaires aren’t just wealthy—they possess sovereignty.
- For her, becoming a time billionaire isn’t about becoming rich in the future—it’s about realizing how rich she already is. Her account is already full; those hours have always been hers.
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Joan Westenberg 明白,时间不会积累,也不会再生。时间不能借出去收利息,只能用或者不用:
- 对她来说,成为“时间亿万富翁”始于一个前提:她的每一个小时,原本就属于她自己。只是她忘了,账户的主人是谁。
- 在金融领域,套利是利用市场失效来获利。而在生活里,时间套利就是用同样的方法,去利用注意力的差价。
- 每一个自动化的 SOP,每一个由虚拟助理管理的任务,每一次被委派的决定,都是时间套利。每一个明天不再需要她亲自做的决定,都是时间套利。
- 她明白,你没法在一个专门用来分散注意力的系统里,把效率优化到极致。唯一的做法,就是退出那个系统。
- 所谓“时间亿万富翁”,如 Graham Duncan 所说,就是生命中还剩十亿秒的人。这大约等于 31 年。
- 她过去习惯用绝对值来衡量财富,但时间财富永远是相对的。相对于义务,相对于自主权,也相对于快乐。
- 一个没有会议、迎接整整一个暑假的青少年,比一个坐着私人飞机、奔赴下一个危机的 CEO,要更富有。
- 若想拥有时间的富足,她必须让时间变得“不流动”。这意味着要为自己创造缓冲区。
- 时间财富并不等同于少工作,而是掌控自己的时间栈:什么时候工作、如何工作、做什么、听命于谁,以及自己正在为哪种未来努力。
- 在她看来,掌控才是最高级的奢侈,而自主就是终极的分红。
- 她意识到,人们之所以过度承诺,是为了逃避一个道德问题:如果没有任何人告诉自己该做什么,她会做什么?
- 成为时间亿万富翁,不只是拥有自己的时间,更是勇敢诚实地面对这个问题。
- 她发现,真正的时间亿万富翁会做另一件事:集中注意力。她们专注,保护这笔资产,把注意力像资本一样投入:谨慎、有意图、并注重长期回报。
- 从这个意义上说,时间亿万富翁不仅仅是富有,她们更拥有主权。
- 对她来说,成为时间亿万富翁,不是未来变得富有,而是意识到自己现在已经多么富有。账户里早已满盈,那些小时,都是她的。
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