- Spending time in damaging relationships — whether its parents, partner or friends, put yourself first.
- Trying to please everyone — by doing meaningless favors, making decisions based on other’s opinion, etc.
- Pursuing a career that you don’t care about — to make your parents happy or to fit into society.
- Procrastination — waiting for the day when you will finally start crushing your goals.
- Avoiding pain — not taking risks, staying in your comfort zone, not working enough, etc.
- Unconsciously watching Tv, movies, social media — trying to escape the reality of your life.
- Never growing as a person, realizing your potential — just being okay with a mediocre you.
- You wouldn’t give away your money for free, then why do you give away your time — giving it away to people you don’t like.
- Working a 9–5 job that you hate but never making efforts to get out of it.
- Above all, not pursuing true joy and fulfillment — instead, settling for an okay life.
He makes time for it. Buffet once gave students in an investing class at Columbia University the following advice: "Read 500 pages like this every day," Buffett said to the students, while reaching toward a stack of manuals and papers. "That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it." Well, we can all build up that knowledge. But are we really doing it? Warren Buffett says, “I just sit in my office and read all day.” What does that mean? He estimates that he spends 80% of his working day reading and thinking. This leads to what is known as the Buffet Formula: “Going to bed smarter than you woke up.” Why is that so important? We’ve been recording knowledge in books for a long time. That means there’s not a lot that’s new; it’s just recycled old knowledge. Odds are that no matter what you’re working on, someone somewhere, who is smarter than you, has
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