Am I Prepared To Pay The Price?

Rui Zhi Dong
3 min readJun 10, 2020
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When you’re buying something online, it’s of course easy to know whether you’re prepared to pay the price because the price is clearly displayed.

You know exactly what you’re getting. You pay $15.00 and you get a salad in exchange — it’s an easy yes or no decision.

There’s no confusion about the price that you’re expected to pay.

But what about for all of the other activities in life that don’t have a clear price tag? In such cases, it can be easy to forget that we’re still paying a price — with time, mind space, emotion, and effort.

These things are at least as important as money. As such, they deserve due consideration.

With the exception of time, these factors are intangible, blurry and difficult to measure numerically.

To stay aware, ask yourself before mindlessly getting into anything, Am I Prepared To Pay The Price?

It can start from something seemingly small like checking your social media.

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Rui Zhi Dong

Entrepreneur and Writer. Working on book, Thinking Questions. Influenced by Charlie Munger, Nassim Taleb, Ray Dalio, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero.