“Life is long if you know how to use it,” declared Seneca 2000 years ago. The years can pass in a blink if you squander your days on pointless pursuits. Find your sine qua non and focus on that above all else.
Each of us can easily identify activities that take up a lot of time but that contribute very little to our success, mission, or wellbeing. The days can fly past, caught up in a whirlwind of busy-ness and distraction.
We can instead choose to focus on important things, whatever those might be for each of us. Spending our precious days focused on our sine qua non will lead to a more fulfilling life.
But of course, we have carefully engineered distractions buzzing in our pockets, 25-mile priority lists, and a culture that prizes being hyper-busy and stretched thin like too little butter on too much bread.
While it’s clearly not easy to break free of the pull of cultural gravity driving us to distraction, it is achievable. If we use our time well, our life can be filled with the things we love.
Read the full transcript here: https://projectindra.org/apotheosis-podcast/episode-33-sine-qua-non/
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