We tend to hoard our money and possessions and whatever else we can get our hands on, and yet, when it comes to time, we rarely guard it or evaluate carefully how well we save and spend it. He suggested that we often give up a great deal of our time to things and people that we wouldn’t consider to be worthy of giving anything to if we slowed down and thought about what we were doing and why. “Men are thrifty in guarding their private property, but as soon as it comes to wasting time, they are most extravagant with the one commodity for which it’s respectable to be greedy,” wrote Seneca in his
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