So why the hell do you spend all day every day working on something that has a good chance of never working out? Well, because We Love It. Simple as that. We love the challenge. We love creating, innovating, bettering the world we live in and we want to leave it better than we left it. Our idea that we have stuck inside our head is so amazingly powerful and so life changing in our mi…
Of course our time is valuable, but it’s valuable in forms of currency that aren’t money — our time is also convertible into idleness, which allows us to be creative, connect with ourselves, and experience the benefits of wonder. It’s convertible into experiences with our children, intimacy with close friends, the perspective and wisdom we get only from reading. Hard to put a price tag on all those.
A system doesn’t have to be complicated or confusing. It just has to work. To quote my friend Tim Grahl, a system is just a way of doing something that gets you a predictable result every time. Like, putting your keys in the same place every day after work (which I only recently started doing).