Monday, January 29, 2007

General Unified Theory of Life

If you live to 100 (and thats a long shot)
you will have 100*365*24*60 = 52 million minutes.
You spend half of this doing mechanical functions (sleep, shower, shit, etc)
26 million minutes.

There are 6000 million people in the world. (and rising)
Of these 6000 million, lets say you get to meet 1 million of them in your lifetime.
Taking the 80/20 principle, you will spend 80% of your time with 20% of these people.
Out of these 20%, 20% (4% compounded) will take up 80% of your most valuable time.
Thats 40000 people.
Out of these 40000, you have your immediate family and good friends. Thats about 20, give and take. Extended family and friends included, maybe 100 total. Or even 200.

26 million minutes spent over 40000 people = 650 minutes a person = 11 hours a person

26 million minutes spent over 200 people = 325000 minutes per important person = 225 days per person.

We spend way too much time thinking of inconsequential things and irrelevant people. Time is a resource that is irreplaceable.

The point of this somewhat disorganised post is that i should spend less time worrying about people who do not matter.bah.

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