People think it’s money,
and yes,
money is important,
and it does let you trade certain things for time,
but it doesn’t really buy you time.
Ask Warren Buffett how much time money can buy you, or Michael Bloomberg.
You can’t trade money for time.
Money is not the real currency of life.
Time itself doesn’t even mean that much,
because a lot of time can be wasted, because you’re not really present for it,
you’re not paying attention.
So the real currency of life is attention.
It’s what you choose to pay attention to, and what you do about it.
And so, back to the point about the news media, you can put your attention on the news,
but that’s how you’re spending the real currency of life.
If you want to, that’s fine.
There’s no right or wrong here.
Like, maybe it is your destiny to pick something in the news,
learn about that problem,
adopt that problem,
and solve it.
But just be careful,
because your attention is the only thing that you have.
And that can also be captured by your own past.
Yes, you can filter it away on anything you like.
This is from Naval Ravikant.