It’s easy to add things to your schedule, to spend your time, to watch a few hours fly by at the blink of your eye.
Much more difficult to face our own reality of how we use our time.
For too many (myself included) and too often, we try to erase our memory of what we wasted our time on.
But when we don’t hide. When we mark and see and respond to it, we can make better decisions going forward.
The way we feel fulfilled at the end of the day isn’t a matter of how much we create or invest or do in the day; it’s about how content we are with how we invested our time.
People don’t intend to be assholes by arguing that you don’t really know something until you experience it.
As much as I get frustrated by it, as much as I say I have friends who have had experience X and shared it with me, as much as I can say I’ve written about experience Y … no, I truly don’t know about it until I experience it.
Crazy to think the argument is even used to stop people from chasing dreams.
“You want to open a book store but have never worked in one?!”
People are cut throat about experiences because they know connections are stronger, empathy is more authentic and it’s easier to provide added-value if we’re seriously aware of what the real experience is for others.
We can argue back. We can say that we’re going to do what we want without the experience. We can say third-party info is good enough.
