Ricardo Semler at Zappos - What we do with our lives is far from wise
Channel: LeadWise
Date: 2016-08-25

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If you think about how we distribute our lives, we spend approximately 20% of our lives studying. We then spend about 35% of our lives working, and we’re left with something like 30% of our lives in retirement.

When you think about how we use our lives and time, we realize that:

Time basically looks like a U curve - you have a lot of it when you’re young, then you don’t when you’re working, and then you do again when you retire.
Money looks like a bell curve - you don’t have any when you’re studying, then you do while working, then you don’t make any over retirement.
And health is linear - it just goes down over time.
This means that we’ve built our lives so that when you have the money, you don’t have the time to spend it, and when you have the time to spend it, you neither have the money nor the health to do so.

Is this the best we can do? Or, are there other ways of structuring our lives more wisely?