Why Don’t We Know How to Protect Our Time?
The cognitive errors that make us waste our most valuable resource
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5 min readOct 29, 2019
All 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…