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the average American lives 76 years and
throughout that lifespan they spend on
average a total of $33
million that's to give you a little
perspective for this thought experiment
let's say that everyone is born with $10
million in their bank account everyone
and throughout the rest of your life
life you get no more money you can't
work for more and you can't be given
more it could never be above $10
million you can spend the 10 million
however you want but when your bank
account reaches
0 you die no you can't just refrain from
spending money either because let's take
it a step further and say that emotions
and experiences cost money if you don't
spend any money you have neither
experiences nor emotions so you're not
really alive unless you spend money what
do you choose to spend your money on
well you have to buy Necessities like
food clothing and medicine because you
can still die from other causes besides
running out of money so let's call that
the investment portion which would be
under a third of it given the average
American expenditure as for the rest of
your money over or 2/3 what type of
emotions and experiences do you purchase
you obviously want to live a good life
right so do you buy
$500,000 worth of anxiety no that would
be a huge waste of money wouldn't it how
about $5
million worth of love what would that
look like I bet the love store would be
very popular $2 million worth of
excitement sounds good to me a million
dollar worth of Wonder I like that a lot
a million dollar worth of joy of course
Nob
brainer those are the types of purchases
I could see you making but what about $3
million worth of hatred
hat why would you even set foot inside
the hatred store what about 2 million
worth of disgust would you buy $5
million of contempt paranoia or fear I
don't see why you would such stores
would go out of business very quickly
after all you only have a limited amount
of money and once you spend it all you
die
why would you spend your money on hate
rather than love on fear rather than Joy
on disgust rather than
pleasure but that's exactly what we do
every single one of us is born with a
limited bank account of time and how are
you spending that time are you spending
it on things that bring you anxiety and
hatred or are you spending it on enjoy
and love you have a finite amount to
spend and when you run out you die in
order to have the most time possible you
might have to invest some of it doing
things you don't want to do like going
to work or exercising but beyond that
how are you spending your limited bank
account of time which only ticks down it
never ticks up even worse when it comes
to money at least you know how much you
have left so you can judge more
accurately what you can afford to
purchase not so with your bank account
of time which can run out tomorrow you
don't have the total so spending well
what you have is of the utmost
importance maybe you have 12,000 days
left in your bank account of time that
sounds like a lot it's about 33 years so
maybe you feel like it's not a big deal
to waste a day here and a day there but
what about when you only have 50 days
left or 20 days how important will those
days be and will you even know it when
you're living them will it matter then
that you wasted so many days when you
were younger when you thought you could
afford to waste them what are you doing
are you purchasing contempt and disgust
with your time
if you are you're wasting whatever you
have left in your dwindling bank account
it's the only thing you truly have and
you're spending it every single day
until it runs out so are you spending it
well or are you wasting it
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