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Who’s Stealing Your Time to Think?
Lessons on utilizing my greatest asset — my mind.
I always prided myself on my knack of being productive.
I’d listen to an audiobook while brushing my teeth, reply to emails in the few minutes I had to wait while ordering food, and utilize my walks to complete business calls.
Even when I was resting, I was always “doing” things. Scrolling through Instagram, making lists of things to do during my travels, saving up recipes to try next.
You get the drift.
Barely a minute would go by without me actively engaged in some activity. While all this hustle helped me keep up with my never-ending to-do lists, they barely left me any time to sit and think.
I was fine with this too, until there was a point in my life I was terrified of silence. I was so used to filling my free time with chores, that when I had absolutely nothing to do, I’d be scared I was wasting my life. This certaintly wasn’t healthy.
Even my productivity-obsessed self understood that.
“Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.”
This quote by Robert Kiyosaki got me thinking about how little time we give to thinking — our brain’s superpower.
