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the long view
Every day you make hundreds of time-use decisions that you can control in the moment. You can put your phone down, stop obsessing about what you’ll order for lunch, cancel meetings, and take a walk by a river. You can call a friend, turn off the TV, exercise, and close email in favor of a podcast. These are the moments and actions you’ve focused on so far in this book.
Some actions, though, are the result of a different kind of decision: a longer life-view decision made years ago that may still carry consequences for the way you spend your time. For example, choosing a job is, in part, choosing a set of activities that could force you into time-impoverishing activities. Decisions about where to live and whom to live with ...
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