MEMO

Issue #292

Seth Godin

The Time Trap of Productivity

Everything we have belongs to others; time alone is ours.

What if money didn't matter

"What makes you itch? What sort of the situation would you like? Let's suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students: they come to me and say well, we are getting out of college and we haven't the faintest idea what we want to do. So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it's so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say 'Well, we'd like to be painters, we'd like to be poets, we'd like to be writers' But as everybody knows you can't earn any money that way! Another person says 'Well I'd like to live an out-of-door's life and ride horses.' I said 'You wanna teach in a riding school?'

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