Why Don’t We Know How to Protect Our Time?

The cognitive errors that make us waste our most valuable resource

Ryan Holiday
Forge
Published in
5 min readOct 29, 2019

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AAll day, we let it happen. A neighbor comes by and babbles on about a bunch of nonsense, and we politely nod, even if we are in a hurry. Or some co-workers start gossiping about something petty, and we let ourselves get drawn in, never stopping to think about the time wasted. Or we…

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Ryan Holiday
Forge
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