Not everyone in their 20s wants to be billionaire.
But every billionaire wants to be 20 again.
A quote from Warren Buffet:
"If I had to live my life over again, I would devote myself to learning about investing and business much earlier. I would give up all my wealth if I could be back in my twenties with the knowledge I have now."
In 2019, the investor Graham Duncan shared an idea that stuck in my head: The Time Billionaire.
"A million seconds is 11 days. A billion seconds is slightly over 31 years...I feel like in our culture, we’re so obsessed, as a culture, with money. And we deify dollar billionaires in a way...And I was thinking of time billionaires that when I see, sometimes, 20-year-olds—the thought I had was they probably have two billion seconds left. But they aren’t relating to themselves as time billionaires."
We always think about how we spend our money. But not how we spend our time.
Especially when we’re in our 20-30s, as we’re young and energetic.
We are not in our 10s anymore. Yet we still discover new things. We get our first internship. Our first job. Maybe our first time moving out of our parent’s home.
Yet we don’t realize how abundant we are.
To me, being a Time Billionaire is about how intentional we are with our time.
Because when something feels unlimited, we tend to waste it.
We scroll.
We delay our goals to “later”.
And we don’t focus it on what truly matters to us.
That’s why I’m spending as much time with as I can with my family now, before it is too late :
Because I know that I will have plenty of time on my own later:
So if you are in the same case as me and have at least 1 billion seconds left, do what truly matters to you:
Call this friend
Pursue that hobby
Spend time with your family
Because in the end, what is heavy for us is the weight of our regrets, not our actions.
Question of the week:
Are you spending your time on what truly matters to you?
Until next week,
Rémy
