People Make Time for What They Want — Rightfully So

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Psychology of Stuff

4 min readJan 17

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People make time for what they want, and we should aspire to that.

“People make time for what they want to make time for.”

Though the author is unknown, this saying has become an axiom to soothe distraught thoughts.

Some use it as reasoning to understand why another person isn’t making time for them.

Nir Eyal

Written by Nir Eyal

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