We all know what does it means by wasting time Precisely, claiming that someone is wasting their time basically just means that they are doing things that doesn’t create actual value for themselves and/or for others.
There are unlimited behaviour and situation where people are considered as wasting their time but the most important factor in this post is regarding the type of value that wasting time is referring to when people use that term.
One common situation where you heard people use the terms “wasting time” is when people play games. Especially for the elders, our generation are very well aware of their perception that playing games is nothing but entertainment and only meant for fun and that’s it. People who play games will not get anything at all afterwards but enjoyment that could not be seen. And the larger concern is the addiction to games and unfillable desire to keep on playing. That is something that contribute to more reasons for elders to think that playing games is absolutely a waste of time.
But we need to consider a fact, games had became one of the major industries in the world of IT. And putting the games addiction aside, games companies are getting better in creating games that not only create the terminal disease call “games addiction”, they also work to produce games that involve educations and learning for people for all ages. And guess what, who are those who developers that create all these games and where did their inspiration came from?
Great inspiration couldn’t be produced by thin air, the games developers are people who experience playing wide range of games and for some reason, they get to produce better idea and turn their idea into output that bring benefits (aside for games addiction) to the society and making the IT world much more creative. Here is my main point in above scenario: If the game developers playing game means wasting time, is this means that their effort to create better game and contribute to the growth of IT world is also meaningless? That’s definitely not, IT world had become much wider to ease our life, and otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read this blog post now and so on.
Most of the time we think that a lot of things that doesn’t mean anything to us are wasting time, but there is one theory I found to be very true: there is nothing that actually waste time in this world. Not only because seconds will keep on counting as you breath on, for every waking moment, your mind is working and thinking. No matter what you do, you are able to utilize your mind to think for something beneficial and for the goods.
Even if you are doing nothing particular such as waiting for bus, standing under the ceiling waiting for the rain to stop, siting at your home sofa to think what you want to do later, or playing a game, your mind is always working and you are able to utilize your capability for thinking and learning.
Sometimes we are bound to certain factors that we couldn’t do what we want that has value for us. For instance, you need to go home to do your work but you couldn’t because of the rain. Instead of feeling frustrated and do nothing but waiting for the rain to stop, you can think and recall what you need to do for your work. Plan about it if you have not do so, think about what is the next step, review your plan to see if there is any way you can work it out faster and better. Or else, think about something else in your mind. Do some thinking, or write down something in your mind if you have notebook or into your phone; if you are playing a game, other than just play on and do what the game ask you to do, you can observe on the design of the game and think how to produce games with amazing graphic and how well is the features of the game compare to others. This is how wasting time does not apply to you when you think about something meaningful in whatever situation you are in.
On the other hand, the actual wasting time would occur if you do not produce a proper thoughts when you could. Take standing under the ceiling while waiting for the rain to stop for instance, you might think about a colleague in the workplace that is offending you or you dislike, or you think about the TV shows that you watch yesterday and try to recall the shows. These thoughts are not a waste of time, but they are a waste of time when you are only thinking about them for the sake of thinking and these thoughts doesn’t give you any value afterwards.
So if you are only thinking about something that you doesn’t need later on, you will be wasting your time as you can always choose to think something better that could improve your life instead of just thinking something that will occur in your life but doesn’t really important afterwards.
This does not only apply to some of the situations in our life that is outside of what we want to do, it also happen when it’s comes to our main life goals such as studies, work, and living. One main concern I have is for people who put high amount of focus in work for salary increment, better performance, and better job advancement. All these definitely create values in our life as better salary means we are able to get better life and better performance means people have better impression on us, and we will eventually become a better person with better status and financial in the society, right? WRONG, why do you need them for?
The very basic concept of this post is one thing: wasting time means doing things that doesn’t create value. Your salary increment and better performance generate more income and better impression for you, and that is true. But what is the value of those in your life? All of us always obsessed with more money and better status so that we can get more things in life and get more fame, but is it true that we can’t live without better income and status? What does better income and status really have to do with the value in your life?
This is something that you need to think through and you have to provide a clear idea for the values of all these efforts for yourself. It’s not the matter of how hard you work for something, it’s all about how much you know what you are working for, and why are those important to you to know that if you are utilizing your time properly to create important values that you truly desire to know that if you are wasting time or not.
Read more...There are unlimited behaviour and situation where people are considered as wasting their time but the most important factor in this post is regarding the type of value that wasting time is referring to when people use that term.
One common situation where you heard people use the terms “wasting time” is when people play games. Especially for the elders, our generation are very well aware of their perception that playing games is nothing but entertainment and only meant for fun and that’s it. People who play games will not get anything at all afterwards but enjoyment that could not be seen. And the larger concern is the addiction to games and unfillable desire to keep on playing. That is something that contribute to more reasons for elders to think that playing games is absolutely a waste of time.
But we need to consider a fact, games had became one of the major industries in the world of IT. And putting the games addiction aside, games companies are getting better in creating games that not only create the terminal disease call “games addiction”, they also work to produce games that involve educations and learning for people for all ages. And guess what, who are those who developers that create all these games and where did their inspiration came from?
Great inspiration couldn’t be produced by thin air, the games developers are people who experience playing wide range of games and for some reason, they get to produce better idea and turn their idea into output that bring benefits (aside for games addiction) to the society and making the IT world much more creative. Here is my main point in above scenario: If the game developers playing game means wasting time, is this means that their effort to create better game and contribute to the growth of IT world is also meaningless? That’s definitely not, IT world had become much wider to ease our life, and otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read this blog post now and so on.
Most of the time we think that a lot of things that doesn’t mean anything to us are wasting time, but there is one theory I found to be very true: there is nothing that actually waste time in this world. Not only because seconds will keep on counting as you breath on, for every waking moment, your mind is working and thinking. No matter what you do, you are able to utilize your mind to think for something beneficial and for the goods.
Even if you are doing nothing particular such as waiting for bus, standing under the ceiling waiting for the rain to stop, siting at your home sofa to think what you want to do later, or playing a game, your mind is always working and you are able to utilize your capability for thinking and learning.
Sometimes we are bound to certain factors that we couldn’t do what we want that has value for us. For instance, you need to go home to do your work but you couldn’t because of the rain. Instead of feeling frustrated and do nothing but waiting for the rain to stop, you can think and recall what you need to do for your work. Plan about it if you have not do so, think about what is the next step, review your plan to see if there is any way you can work it out faster and better. Or else, think about something else in your mind. Do some thinking, or write down something in your mind if you have notebook or into your phone; if you are playing a game, other than just play on and do what the game ask you to do, you can observe on the design of the game and think how to produce games with amazing graphic and how well is the features of the game compare to others. This is how wasting time does not apply to you when you think about something meaningful in whatever situation you are in.
On the other hand, the actual wasting time would occur if you do not produce a proper thoughts when you could. Take standing under the ceiling while waiting for the rain to stop for instance, you might think about a colleague in the workplace that is offending you or you dislike, or you think about the TV shows that you watch yesterday and try to recall the shows. These thoughts are not a waste of time, but they are a waste of time when you are only thinking about them for the sake of thinking and these thoughts doesn’t give you any value afterwards.
So if you are only thinking about something that you doesn’t need later on, you will be wasting your time as you can always choose to think something better that could improve your life instead of just thinking something that will occur in your life but doesn’t really important afterwards.
This does not only apply to some of the situations in our life that is outside of what we want to do, it also happen when it’s comes to our main life goals such as studies, work, and living. One main concern I have is for people who put high amount of focus in work for salary increment, better performance, and better job advancement. All these definitely create values in our life as better salary means we are able to get better life and better performance means people have better impression on us, and we will eventually become a better person with better status and financial in the society, right? WRONG, why do you need them for?
The very basic concept of this post is one thing: wasting time means doing things that doesn’t create value. Your salary increment and better performance generate more income and better impression for you, and that is true. But what is the value of those in your life? All of us always obsessed with more money and better status so that we can get more things in life and get more fame, but is it true that we can’t live without better income and status? What does better income and status really have to do with the value in your life?
This is something that you need to think through and you have to provide a clear idea for the values of all these efforts for yourself. It’s not the matter of how hard you work for something, it’s all about how much you know what you are working for, and why are those important to you to know that if you are utilizing your time properly to create important values that you truly desire to know that if you are wasting time or not.
