When I fly I notice what other people are doing, and it tells me a lot about who they are.
Most people watch movies, play games, sleep, drink alcohol, or do nothing at all.
It’s a free country, and I am not saying that anyone should do any particular thing. But looking at it from the perspective of explaining why people are where they are and get what they get, you can see why.
As for me, I value time. I use the time on airplanes to read, study, capture good ideas in my journal, and to plan. I bring a journal and colored pens and use the time productively.
It’s funny that I get the marketing material for private jet sharing and I think to myself, “Why would I want to pay all that money and lose that productive time?”
If you want to break free of the crowd, you have to think different than they do, and act different than they do. If you want to be normal, do what everyone else does and get the same results.
It doesn’t mean you don’t play. I have plenty of fun. (For me, my work is fun.) I go on many adventures with friends and people I love. But the story of my life is that when others were watching TV and social media, relaxing and passing time away, I was using that time productively to study and learn and getting better.
Do that for 20 or 30 or 40 years and you’ll wind up in a very different place.
Young people need to hear this message. All that free time I had when I was a younger man – what I could have/should have done with it!
Go, Dustin G!
I love this! I’m glad I’m not the only one out there who finds an airplane so productive and so odd no one else does
Love it – thank you for sharing Larry.