Nir Eyal

So I don't care if you're Bill Gates or Warren Buffett or Elon Musk, you cannot make more time. We all get a finite amount of time on earth. And so I think we should flip the script. We should be generous with our money and stingy with our time because we can't make more of it. And so what do we do with that? How do we put this into practice? You turn your values into time. So what are values?

So I don't care if you're Bill Gates or Warren Buffett or Elon Musk, you cannot make more time. We all get a finite amount of time on earth. And so I think we should flip the script. We should be generous with our money and stingy with our time because we can't make more of it. And so what do we do with that? How do we put this into practice? You turn your values into time. So what are values?

How do you define values? My definition of values are attributes of the person I want to become. Values are attributes of the person you want to become. So what I offer folks is this three-part framework of how you can start building

How do you define values? My definition of values are attributes of the person I want to become. Values are attributes of the person you want to become. So what I offer folks is this three-part framework of how you can start building

How do you define values? My definition of values are attributes of the person I want to become. Values are attributes of the person you want to become. So what I offer folks is this three-part framework of how you can start building

turning your values into time starting with you you're at the center of these three life domains if you can't take care of yourself you can't take care of other people you can't make the world a better place so what i advise people to do is to look at their calendar for the week ahead and ask themselves how would the person i want to become spend their time taking care of themselves in whatever way is important to you so if prayer is important if meditation is important if physical fitness right you ask people what do you value oh my health is number one well

turning your values into time starting with you you're at the center of these three life domains if you can't take care of yourself you can't take care of other people you can't make the world a better place so what i advise people to do is to look at their calendar for the week ahead and ask themselves how would the person i want to become spend their time taking care of themselves in whatever way is important to you so if prayer is important if meditation is important if physical fitness right you ask people what do you value oh my health is number one well

turning your values into time starting with you you're at the center of these three life domains if you can't take care of yourself you can't take care of other people you can't make the world a better place so what i advise people to do is to look at their calendar for the week ahead and ask themselves how would the person i want to become spend their time taking care of themselves in whatever way is important to you so if prayer is important if meditation is important if physical fitness right you ask people what do you value oh my health is number one well

Do you have time in your calendar to exercise, eat right, and get proper rest? If not, is that really one of your values? And I'm not telling you it has to be. If you don't like to exercise and it's not part of your value system, don't do it. I'm not going to tell you to do it. But if it is one of your values, if being healthy is important to you, it's got to have that time on your calendar.

Do you have time in your calendar to exercise, eat right, and get proper rest? If not, is that really one of your values? And I'm not telling you it has to be. If you don't like to exercise and it's not part of your value system, don't do it. I'm not going to tell you to do it. But if it is one of your values, if being healthy is important to you, it's got to have that time on your calendar.

Do you have time in your calendar to exercise, eat right, and get proper rest? If not, is that really one of your values? And I'm not telling you it has to be. If you don't like to exercise and it's not part of your value system, don't do it. I'm not going to tell you to do it. But if it is one of your values, if being healthy is important to you, it's got to have that time on your calendar.

as does time for the things you enjoy if you like watching youtube videos or netflix or golf or i don't care what it is if you enjoy that stuff put it on your calendar as long as it's consistent with your values and your schedule not someone else's so don't medicalize and moralize do it enjoy it but do it because you said you were going to do it not because you're looking for an escape from reality so put it on your schedule that's the you domain

as does time for the things you enjoy if you like watching youtube videos or netflix or golf or i don't care what it is if you enjoy that stuff put it on your calendar as long as it's consistent with your values and your schedule not someone else's so don't medicalize and moralize do it enjoy it but do it because you said you were going to do it not because you're looking for an escape from reality so put it on your schedule that's the you domain

as does time for the things you enjoy if you like watching youtube videos or netflix or golf or i don't care what it is if you enjoy that stuff put it on your calendar as long as it's consistent with your values and your schedule not someone else's so don't medicalize and moralize do it enjoy it but do it because you said you were going to do it not because you're looking for an escape from reality so put it on your schedule that's the you domain

then time for your relationships. So part of the reason we have a loneliness epidemic in the industrialized world is that as society became more secular, these institutions that used to give us a time and a place on our calendars to meet with other people started to disappear.

then time for your relationships. So part of the reason we have a loneliness epidemic in the industrialized world is that as society became more secular, these institutions that used to give us a time and a place on our calendars to meet with other people started to disappear.

then time for your relationships. So part of the reason we have a loneliness epidemic in the industrialized world is that as society became more secular, these institutions that used to give us a time and a place on our calendars to meet with other people started to disappear.

So the church group, the Kiwanis Club, the local thing, the bowling league, the things that we used to do together became less and less part of our lives. And this is a long-term phenomenon. This is not because of social media, This was happening in the 1990s. Robert Putnam wrote about this in his book Bowling Alone in the 90s. So this has been a long-term trend. We need to bring that back.

So the church group, the Kiwanis Club, the local thing, the bowling league, the things that we used to do together became less and less part of our lives. And this is a long-term phenomenon. This is not because of social media, This was happening in the 1990s. Robert Putnam wrote about this in his book Bowling Alone in the 90s. So this has been a long-term trend. We need to bring that back.

So the church group, the Kiwanis Club, the local thing, the bowling league, the things that we used to do together became less and less part of our lives. And this is a long-term phenomenon. This is not because of social media, This was happening in the 1990s. Robert Putnam wrote about this in his book Bowling Alone in the 90s. So this has been a long-term trend. We need to bring that back.