Sadler's Quick Takes Number 3 | You Can't Do It All, But That's All Right | Prudent Prioritization
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This is the third in a new series of shorter videos in which I give a "quick take" on some matter that I consider important to address, for at least some of my viewers, readers, listeners, followers, or students.
This Quick Take was prompted by a conversation on Twitter, stemming from my most recent Thanksgiving, in which we ate a good bit, enjoyed each other's company, watched the most recent season of Rick and Morty, and I read some fantasy literature. I was asked "It can seem impossible to pursue being truly well read and also have time for everything else. Do you have any thoughts on that?"
I'll discuss the "truly well-read" notion later on down the line. The notion of having time for everything else, though, is what I decided to focus upon. Nobody has the time for "everything else", just some things, and we are always stuck choosing between them without really understanding the range of options or possibilities. So we always have to engage in some prioritization and preference, selecting to focus on some things at the expense of others. The trick is to do so in a prudent or practically wise way, and that's not easy. But it is possible!
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Honestly, this is probably one of the best non lecture videos you’ve given. Thanks for this
You’re welcome - and thanks!
Thanks for this, Prof. Sadler, it came at the right time.
Thank you for making this video. Really appreciate it!!
Glad you found it useful!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Wonderful talk Greg. With a death in my family, and lots of changes health and carrier-wise this year, the importance of these trade offs, and my own true priorities have never been clearer.
I think another flaw in the thinking of the “how can I maximize my day off?” guy you describe in the video is that to some degree your own priorities are something you have to be sensitive to and uncover as you go on through life; there is no outside ultimate universal list everyone should follow. Try out different prioritizations and keep the ones that work for you.
Some great food for thought; if you do one on the obsession with being “well read” (definitely been there) I’d love to watch it. Take care professor.
Yes, that’s a good point - there can be something like a set of possible ordering, but there’s no universal list to be sure
Great advice, I've came to realize this as well. In other words, we have to frequently ask ourselves "what should I reasonably do now? If I'm on Facebook, I might say that I'm wasting my time and should move to this philosophy text I'm trying to study, but then I look outside and my son is still trying to fix his bicycle, so I should probably go help him out instead of studying. What would the sage do ? What would you version 2.0 do.
Personally, I rarely ask myself "what would the sage do" because I rarely found it useful.
I suppose it ties into the aphorism, "Perfect is the enemy of good enough".
It does
Thanks for this, just what I needed. It’s OK to just read a chapter a day and work on yourself little by little. Comparison is the thief.
It is indeed ok
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Sounds just like me talking to my kid!
This video is a cure for anxiety. 😄
I'm glad to read that.