How Intelligent People Waste Time & How You Can Stop Wasting Yours

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While normal people waste their time with things like YouTube, video games or TV shows, smart people waste their time more intelligently: They waste time reading and learning.

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING!

No matter what activity you partake in to waste time it is still wasted time! The only thing intelligent people do differently is that they waste time doing something that is socially accepted as not a time-waster.

This means that when they waste time they actually feel good about it because it still seems like they are doing something worthwhile.

But the fact remains that it is still wasting time.

If your main job is to be an engineer and your life goal is to become one of the richest, most successful, best engineers in the world, yet you read dozens upon dozens of books on the anatomy of animals it is wasting your time.

You might as well be playing video games or watch TV during that time rather than lie to yourself and cheat yourself by pretending to be productive.

Even if you read books on engineering, learning only gets you so far.

At some point you are merely avoiding the few, important actions that would get you ahead by not spending your…