Chapter Five. Don’t spend any of your time in the future
You’d never dream of jumping into a taxi and when the driver asked you, “Where would you like to go?” saying, “I don’t know, just take me anywhere.” Yet this is a perfect metaphor for how most people lead their lives. I’ll prove it to you. If I was to ask, “Where will you be in five years’ time?” you probably wouldn’t have a clue. That’s because only 10% of the population are future focused. This means 90% of us are stuck in the now or the past. When someone says, “Never mind five years from now, I don’t even know where I’ll be five minutes from now. I can’t think about the future,” it is literally true. ...
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