I liked the article. It made me remember an approach of thinking about time very different from what we usually listen every day. The time can not be measured by the numbers of hours, days, months, years we spent working for our goals. If we want to enjoy our lives the way we actually want, that is not the mindset. We want to think about time as a distance we need to run to achieve some goal (that has meaning to you (and not for others).
So happiness related to optimizing the time is about to run the more fast you can this distance called “time” to achieve the things you want to experience.
Imagine if I had discovered that place to rent car in the beginning of the trip, we wouldn’t need to get a taxi every time we needed to go to somewhere, imagine if I had met that person earlier in my life, imagine if I had read that book before that exam… We would have enjoyed exponentially better our moments because it would remain exponentially more time to us to do the others things we want or we need to do.
And it’s okay if you fail. It’s good to fail. But if you fail fast, it is better. Because you will learn fast too. Fail often and fail fast.