Wasted sounds too dramatic, misallocated I would say.
I would love to be able to achieve a 100% focus at will.
But I think acquiring knowledge in so many different fields has also allowed me to have a pretty unique personality that I'm satisfied with.
Sometimes I look at those people that are completely sucked into one thing and I just think I wouldn't like to be like them.
I would love to have tons and tons of money, but would I want to be Warren Buffet? No way.
For example I spent a year learning Chinese (completed an equivalent of 3 years of study for a 'normal' person + naturally expanded over the next year without effort or loosing too much time). I know it's something pretty much without use unless I want to get a crappy job, but I'm happy I did.
I just like having that extra knowledge.
It's no different than how I want to have a fancy car.
If I was to put a price tag on that knowledge it would definitely be millions.
My point is that although there's no doubt we need to improve let's do it our way.
A good analogy is when you play a game, say soccer and you invent your own way to kick the ball, you know how other, better people kick it, you know your way is 'wrong' but it's so much more fun. And who knows maybe one day it turns out you can still win that way.
Let's not get depressed (you sound a little hopeless there, haha). We can adjust this and that and we'll be fine.
I would love to be able to achieve a 100% focus at will. But I think acquiring knowledge in so many different fields has also allowed me to have a pretty unique personality that I'm satisfied with. Sometimes I look at those people that are completely sucked into one thing and I just think I wouldn't like to be like them. I would love to have tons and tons of money, but would I want to be Warren Buffet? No way.
For example I spent a year learning Chinese (completed an equivalent of 3 years of study for a 'normal' person + naturally expanded over the next year without effort or loosing too much time). I know it's something pretty much without use unless I want to get a crappy job, but I'm happy I did. I just like having that extra knowledge. It's no different than how I want to have a fancy car. If I was to put a price tag on that knowledge it would definitely be millions.
My point is that although there's no doubt we need to improve let's do it our way. A good analogy is when you play a game, say soccer and you invent your own way to kick the ball, you know how other, better people kick it, you know your way is 'wrong' but it's so much more fun. And who knows maybe one day it turns out you can still win that way.
Let's not get depressed (you sound a little hopeless there, haha). We can adjust this and that and we'll be fine.