> you consider how precious your time is.

And what are you going to do with it then? I totally realize how valuable the time is. This gives me tremendous anxiety and fear of missing out - it's so precious after all that I have to use in absolutely the best way possible. But what this best way would be?

So I end up in similar analysis paralysis that the one who spends more time choosing a movie to watch then actually watching it does. Needless to say that he also enjoys the movie less - because he is not sure that he made a right choice after all. And after that he realizes that he just waisted double the amount of movie time to something that he hadn't even liked.

IMHO putting time/productivity/goals/etc. as your top priority is a mistake. Similar to committing to some ideal from your childhood for the whole life. Unless yours and your close ones' personalitiea are not factored in, this is just a way to delude yourself into "productivity" trap.

Indeed, knowing what it is that is important to you may be the most important feature of your philosophy of life, and discerning this is difficult. But all we can do is try our best to figure it out and realize that time is not wasted if it is spent purposefully.

I don't know the solution to this - discovery/exploitation is a hard balance to get right.

For what it's worth, I find that if I focus on either making things or doing things with others, I'm happier than when I just consume. But I'm not a life coach - just a guy who spent waaaaayy too much time in my 20's playing videogames, staying in a college program I hated and should've dropped out of, and doing rather little to change it, until somehow the fact that I am, indeed, going to die one day and it's sooner than I think and there's stuff I want to do before then, really clicked in my head (and never went away).

I'd argue that watching any screen is almost certainly not the best use of time.

the time you have, in jellybeans

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