How to Optimize Your Life | NYT Opinion
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In the above video, we’ll show you how to optimize*. . .or make yourself crazy trying.
After all, you’ve only got - on average - 78.53 years on this planet, total. And you’re likely already spending a precious 5 hours each day on email, not to mention the time spent waiting in line or stuck in transit.
But what if there were ways to make more time out of time?
Luckily, there are. Like the hundreds of meal prep options to save you the time it takes to choose vegetables. And the ability to listen to thousands of podcasts at triple speed. Even your phone can double as a light switch. Or a therapist.
William Penn once said, “time is what we want most, but use worst.”
But Penn knew nothing about optimizing.
*Happiness not guaranteed.
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i love the irony of this
btw the best optimization is enjoying being here, even when you're waiting in line or washing the dishes, you don't have to act like you are pausing your life at that moment: just be present anyway.
because if 'being more productive' = being on your phone all the time and being stressed to get your coffee as quick as possible.. thats not really nice
Totally agree! I find that when I'm waiting in a doctor's office or for a friend in a restaurant is when I can actually take a short pause in my day and take a deep breath and relax for a bit. Same with showers. Lol But the one thing I still hate is sitting in traffic. Unless you're listening to a good podcast or audiobook then yeah, traffic is a frikkin annoying waste of time! Lol
I think the irony slapped me in the face way too hard haha. Even more ironic, all of us are probably laying down watching this and not #optimizing
Well, some of us watching this while bungee jumping.
Literally in bed thinking "that's nice"....
Actually I’m watching this hungover asf while having my morning coffee
You are so right, which we should be correcting after watching this.
Yes, just watched this vid while in bed.
Step 6: Watch this video on speed 2.
You can easily tell who didn’t watch the whole video.
How to be a better slave to capitalism.
except that extra time can be used to pursue your other life goals? how is optimizing your life somehow intrinsically linked to capitalism???
Sarcasm overload
And it's funny and I love it! Lol
*happiness not guaranteed
thanks
Such an American way to live your life
Dylan J still can’t afford health insurance.
Literally my first thought! Heaven forbid we "waste" time doing something enjoyable, or *gasp* reading an entire book. I think many of us, now, will be re-thinking our relationship with time and the concepts of "home," "work," and "rest."
Only 21.8 hours wasted every week? I feel it's more like 40+ hours
🤣
don't stop moving don't stop working don't stop running don't think don't stop
(p.s. this is brilliant)
Read a news feed on your way to optimize your life, then get hit by a driver who happened to do the same.
In the future, please label this “parody” so I can laugh and move on without having to watch it at all.
MORE CONTENT, LESS CONTEXT!
I find that many are really productive with pointless tasks in order to buy pointless stuff.
hey hey or u can just enjoy ur life
I Optimize my time by watching this video at 2x speed.
The sad part is that some of you will try some of this.
You cant PM your life
I enjoy the moments I waste the most because i have time to soak in the present moment and im not always rushing to the next thing which is most likely just as unimportant as anything else. The world is in a rush but I like to take time, to hear what my life is telling me.
... I thought this was for real. I even got a pencil and paper out and wrote all the steps down.
I honestly think spending more time reading a book and actually enjoying it optimises my time better than having to listen to a short version of it.
I love the final irony...being idle or completely useless is also a way of enjoying life.
money doesn’t buy happiness, but it sure prevents a lot of sorrow
How to optimize your life to better serve the ruling class in the capitalist world.
this!!!
Did you even finish the video??
I optimized my life by stop watching this at 2 minute.
God bless. I'm gonna hysterically laugh at a blank wall for a few hours now.
... with a strong preference for citrus."
*Looks down at orange I'm eating*
How do they know?
This is depressing
Edit: changed my mind, you should watch till the end, 👍
love this video. watch it til the end, y'all.
"'They're a great time-saver,' said the merchant. 'The experts have worked it out. You can save fifty-three minutes in every week.'
'And what do I do with these fifty-three minutes?'
'You do whatever you like...'
'For my part,' said the little prince to himself, 'if I had fifty-three minutes to spare, I would take my time walking slowly towards the nearest fountain of water.'"
This is a tongue-in-cheek piece that actually pokes fun at the crazy ways we as humans are being told to "optimize" our lives like we're robots. Most Americans will be able to relate. And if you can't, good for you! That means you're not stressed out and hectic. lol So no, don't take this video seriously. Instead, laugh at it because it's pretty funny. lol
lost me at "read a short version of the book", i'll go procrastinate now
Why don't watch the video till the end and then procrastinate further with other activities. I m doing the same fyi
same but you should of finished it
Missed the entire point
@@dudadrehmer9964 that's why I said he should watch till the end lol
@@possiblyadickhead6653 I knew I missed something :D. Once I'm done procrastinating i'll make sure to finish it. Short attention span!
The moment I stopped worrying about productivity was the moment my productivity actually went up
You need to be able to stare off into the distance sometimes. The brain is not made for non stop hustle. That's a great way to get anxiety and depression
LOL Umbrella Academy
5:20
One of the best ways to optimize your life: ignore opinion pieces so that the actual news and facts are used to make up your own mind. They are superfluous at best, ignorant and self serving at worst.
Also don't read novels or watch TV shows or play video games or listen to your friends talk about things that might not be factually correct.
It's not about using your time. It's about enjoying it.
This was the most infuriating video I had ever watched in my life up until the 2.50 mark, at which point I burst out laughing. Great setup, well played.
How to optimize your life:
Don't
Best new york times opinion ever 😂
Many of those are good. My dailies: pray (Baha'i), meditate (briefly), self-accupressure, scent (lavender), breathing (diaphramic), diet (plant-based), laugh, exercise, learn (often science), read a belief system (positive), music (uplifting), fast (after 6 pm), supplement (selective), find beauty (anywhere), sleep (circadian), work (as worship), help someone :-) ~ Most ideas by Abdul-Baha, Baha'i Faith
for a super narrow set of folks maybe its applicable, in my case never used meal kit, rideshare, or gym in my life, and this is true for 100s of folks I know.
I guess we do live in our own worlds.
*Always remember there's no cure for depression, only distraction to keep yourself motivated and your happiness is not always going to be guarantee.*
Thanks god this video was completely covered with irony. My cortisol level were peaking about 40 seconds in and I was about to go raging in the comments about the American obsession with productiveness.
The notion going around is that being type A is good and type B is lazy, but type A is more accurately described as A for anxiety, while Type B is more like, B for best life without all that anxiety brought upon yourself. Somewhere in the middle is the golden ratio.
I was so irritated thinking this was serious in the begining of the video :)
if this is a mean to become more productive, then i feel like an important aspect has been overlooked: meditation, putting soul into ur work, being less of a robot, more humans!
This video is founded upon the idea that I want to minimize the gaps and be productive 100% of the time. Contrary to popular opinion, I need rest and gaps in my life.
I think that it shows a great way to be. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that the twist at the end is that being highly productive comes at the cost of family and friendship, which most people view as valuable in the long term. There's a different takeaway that could be gained here. While this person focused on optimizing his life, he should have also considered what goals were valuable to him. If his friends, family, and community were important to him, a highly productive person would plan their day such that they could be successful at their job, take care of their errands, and spend as much time as possible with their friends and family. Someone who doesn't consider how they might make the best use of their time would find themselves running multiple errands when they could have done just one, thus taking away from the time that they could have spent with family or other goals that they find valuable.
Furthermore, this doesn't mean that a person attempting to optimize their life must avoid taking breaks and rest. Most people recognize that a person having a healthy sleep habit and planned breaks will outperform someone who is sleep deprived.
I'd be interested in hearing different opinions. What potential downsides are there towards optimizing one's time towards accomplishing their goals? Let me know!
mind blown until the end
guys watch to the end !!! it’s pretty satirical and it’s not all about how you can’t take breaks
Why is this not on the trending page?
The best part of this video 5:45 Life optimized
February 2020 - NYT: "Here's how to maximize your time."
March 2020 - Coronavirus: Hold my beer. And BTW, it's the only thing you're going to be doing for the next 3 months.
Is the Narrator Romnex?! The Dark Somnium's wife (both are the channels of no sleep /creepy pasta narrators). She sounds 100% like Romnex!!
3 simpler steps:
1. Throw out your TV, you'll also become happier.
2. Get rid of things that cause problems and wastes your life.
3. Do help others, but set a limit to it.
(4. Play UA-cam videos on 1.25 or 1.5 time acceleration to save more time)
Watched this at 1.5x…. optimization achieved!
🤣 I started to listen intently and then I caught the joke
I got an ad for a “lifehack” productivity boot camp after the video. ROTFLMAO
Yes what a wonderful idea. Turn yourself into a machine and produce and produce and produce and produce and produce and optimize and optimze and optimize and optimize and optimize....nothing unhealthy about adopting a constant rationalizing pressure supposed for an economical context.
Charlie Chaplin would shake his head.
I think from Step 2 we can start accelerating already and keep accelerating until the Step 5 : we die .
It's a perfectly efficient life without even having the time to think about the life you've lived .
Loved the Bill Wurtz-inspired aesthetics 👌🏿
Fitter Happier
More Productive.
This looks like a toxic way of approaching life.
I'm just okay with the one life in my only one life thank you for your advice :D
What about improving your life by being lazy, watching birds and flowers, walk through forest, watch streams of river and sea waves, read totally random books, walk when you can ride a cab, run to nowhere, watch kids play, sing in shower, spend time with grandparents, go to a dog shelter and do unproductive caring ... give smiles to random people , do unproductive giving and kindness, fill yourself with compassion and love and forget all about efficiency because that brings fear and anxiety. Live the way you would want to be loved.
This is satire, guys. A critique of hustle culture.
Chilling!
We need to optimize the NYT.
Basically don’t enjoy anything or live in the moment
Lmaooo this is genius...y'all got me
We manage our time to do the things we want, not for the sake of managing our time in the best way possible. I think this video somewhat pushes that idea and it's clearly not what people want.
Time Optimization is great but downtime is also important... Otherwise you'd burn out. Society and technology loves rewarding a fast paced optimal life, and not so much self reflection and personal time, both of which are really important. If you are always hustling, you'll never really live and you'll never really know who you are.
Don't optimize for productivity, optimize for happiness.
Productivity makes you happy
@@havibabi not the only thing. Being present or making human connections or looking at art or laughing or feeling like you have a purpose or helping others or many other things also makes you happy. And obviously this video is satire that optimizing productivity too much might not make you more happy
@@RemotHuman all those things are productive to me, they produce happines.
I enjoyed it very much. Thank you. Live one satisfying life not 265.
What about the environmental and financial implications of optimisation ?
Seriously what genius thought of this?? THIS SOLVES NOTHING WITHOUT WILL POWER!!!
Understanding all the irony of the video - comments are still so much better))
Jokes aside, you are not really becoming more productive / saving time just to save time, you are doing it to have more time to do stuff you love
So true, why to even bother to think or self reflect.
By the way, great ad for meal prep and podcasts.
Your lifespan probably decreases 😄
Procrastination has it's own benefits. Where does it go the time to observe a butterfly that ultimately inspires you to develop the chaos theory? This optimization thing is not all good
now this is DEEP
Wow, I wish I was actually 5’10
I live in La add 4 hours for to and from work
Basically multitask and never be present nor mindful in what you are actually doing.
That was the best way end the video! got 'em!
Time enjoyed is not time wasted!
Shout out to keynes' 15 hour workweek. Keep the dream alive everyone. It's possible. Vote for Bernie.
Sorry, but this was a waste of time.
I can't tell if this is ironic or not
rhianne oh it is
yeah it definitely is
Y’all it’s a satirical piece... watch until the end before you thumb it down
The satire isn't as effective if the satirical elements don't really show themselves until after the 3-4 minute mark. There's moments where it does show some satirical smidges beforehand , but they're so dry that it's easily missed.
It also doesn't help that NYT Opinion isn't known for posting satire often. Just look on their profile and there's a lot more videos of non-satire than satire.
I can't blame people for taking the video as is. Funny enough, people don't wanna waste time watching an video about capitalistic efficiency [that isn't quite so clear that it's satire] , especially if they already deal with folk grilling them for not being efficient and wasting time.
TIME Flies, if you don't Optimize Your Life. Each DAY Counts the time starts now
I skept all the steps to optimise my life. Now I live alone with only the step 3 and Netflix. 😂
Not everything is about productivity, relaxing is fine
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare...
...A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
- William Henry Davis
came in skeptical, finished watching a changed person :P
Wow! This is more of how not to optimize your life. Going off to meditate and then read, and only read
To optimize, you have to simplify things, not by adding extra small tasks to everyday routine like this video.
Well said.
This is just plain stressful. Productivity is not everything in life. Figure out what works for you...
is this tavi gevinson
Guide to 100 percenting life
there's no sense productivity without a goal
I hate those mini book things. I get more out of a complete book Than listening to someone else's idea of what minimal knowledge snippets I need. What helps the info stick to me may not be the same info that sticks it to the next person.
The gold standard of satire. How to be human, but also a robot. The truth in that is that we all live *traces* of this life. Relax and enjoy your wasteful minutes!