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🗓️ 16 March 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello. |
0:03.0 | When I was in high school, I was scrolling through Instagram, |
0:06.0 | and I stumbled upon a graphic. |
0:08.0 | And the graphic looked a little something like this. |
0:11.0 | Okay, there was a triangle and at the end of each |
0:15.5 | tip of the triangle there was a priority. So on one tip of the triangle there was |
0:21.2 | sleep. On the other tip of the triangle there was success in work or school and |
0:28.8 | then on the last tip of the triangle there was social life and on the bottom of the triangle, there was social life. |
0:33.8 | And on the bottom of the screen, it said choose two. |
0:37.4 | And basically, the concept of this was, |
0:40.2 | you can't prioritize everything in your life that you want to prioritize. |
0:46.0 | You might want to have good quality sleep, good quality social life, |
0:50.0 | and a successful work life or a successful school life. |
0:54.0 | But the truth is, we're not capable of that as humans. |
0:58.0 | And you have to choose two in your life. |
1:01.0 | You can't have all three. You can't succeed in every area of your life that you want to succeed at. |
1:06.8 | That was kind of the concept of this graphic. Now for me as a high school student this absolutely blew my mind. |
1:14.8 | This was philosophy at its finest. |
1:17.6 | This was everything I was looking for at the time. |
1:21.0 | A basic explanation for why I was struggling so much. |
1:25.0 | And it did explain that to me, because at the time, |
1:30.0 | I was prioritizing social life and success and I wanted to be prioritizing sleep |
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