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Why is free time considered valuable?
It frustrates me that we call something so valuable free time. Because in my mind, when something is free, you give it away. It's worthless. And I think that for a lot of my young life, I treated my free time as disposable garbage. And I flooded my brain with information that didn't matter, with thoughts that weren't even mine. And I preoccupied myself with people and relationships that drained my time that I will never get back. I want you to know that in this life, nothing is free. Nothing is free. And eventually you will pay the price.
How can we recognize the cost of our decisions?
You will pay the price of your decisions. You will pay the price of what you decided to do, who you decided to hang around, what kind of mindset you decided to adopt. You will pay the price because nothing is free. You think. that it's worth it to stand in line for a free hoodie at your college because some brand is coming into town. And that line is two and a half hours. You might tell your friend, yo, I got this hoodie for free, check it out. But in reality, you sacrificed two and a half of your hours that you will never get back. And the same thing is like, well, I'm just messing around with the sneaky link like it's not that deep, whatever. OK, maybe. But when you spend six months messing around and it going nowhere and just kind of passing the time, you're going to look back and go, oh, why did I do that?
How do we catch this before it happens? How do we actually fill our life with things that matter and not with just background noise in order to distract ourselves from the fact that we don't know who we are, we don't know what we're doing, and we don't even know if we're going to survive the way that we want to? It's not what's going on right now, right? That's not the solution. Because right now we're torturing our free time. We're just setting it ablaze. We're thinking, oh, it doesn't matter. I'm young. Like this is what I'm supposed to be doing. And listen, I think that there's also this hyper fixation on young people to have everything figured out. And there's almost like, don't fail. You need to lock in.
You need to get the perfect job and perfect opportunity. And I think this is a detriment too. Wabi-sabi. Alright? I'm sure you've heard the term wabi-sabi. You need an imperfect life. And an imperfect life has intention. It has intention. But it also has failure. It has risk. It has a part of you that is afraid to live it. Because you know you will be challenged. Because you know... I might change the person that I am by my experiences. But if nothing is free, then maybe this is a valuable use of your time. Maybe taking on that hobby, trying something different, I don't know, even something small. You've been a picky eater your whole life. You go to a restaurant and they have creamed corn. You don't like corn, but you've never had creamed corn, so try it.
Small things, it starts very, very small, is how you build your life intentionally. And I think this is such an epidemic amongst young people where we feel like our time does not matter. And so we fill it with things that can distract us from the loneliness, from the sadness, from the fact that we have been pushed into just keeping a safe life. Because this world is so terrible and this world is so scary. And it is. It is a scary place. It's not the most welcoming environment for some people. Absolutely. But that's not going to change unless you do. Unless you realize, okay, this is my reality. I need to live it with what I got. If I have the opportunity to go somewhere for school, I need to take it.
If I have the opportunity to date somebody that I really, really like, I need to do it. I can't just think, well, I'll get that opportunity again. It's literally free. Nothing is free. Remember this, please. Remember that nothing is free. Any kind of commitment that you do, whether that is a job, whether that is a person, whether that is something you have decided for yourself, a goal that you want to go after, you want to get swole, all right? You want to look like Baj, have that crazy transformation.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why is free time considered valuable?
0:00–0:39
2
How can we recognize the cost of our decisions?
0:39–5:30
3
What does it mean to live intentionally?
5:30–5:41
4
How can we fill our lives with meaningful experiences?
5:41–9:15
5
What is the significance of wabi-sabi in our lives?
9:15–16:14
6
How can we change our mindset for a better life?
16:14–26:19