This article comes from WeChat public account: Wait But Why (ID: wbwtimurban) , author: Tim Urban, Translator: sub Miao, editor: Vivid, proofing: Edina

How many lives are you in this week when the epidemic is idle?

This is a person’s long life in years:

This is the life of a person in months:

But today, we are going to look at people’s lives on a weekly basis:

All the weeks of each line make up a year. From the picture we can clearly see how many weeks it takes for a newborn baby to fall to the 90-year-old old man.

It feels like our lives are made up of countless weeks, but they are actually “observing” you there, not only countable, but one week later.

Before we go any further, let’s see how a typical American spends their “week” of life:

There are other interesting ways to use the “week” period chart of life:

So, what about yours?

Sometimes life is really short, sometimes it is incredible. However, this chart helps to emphasize the limits of life. This is the “week” of your life, and there are only so many.

Given this fact, the only appropriate word to describe the “week” of your life is- precious .

In the eternal time process, there are countless “weeks”, and only this point in the picture above can truly be in our hands.

With this “precious” theme, let’s take eachWeek is imagined as a small gem, such as a 2 mm, 0.05 carat diamond. Here’s one:

If you multiply the volume of a 0.05-carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4680) , their sum is almost one soup Spoon.

Look at this spoonful of diamonds, so the question comes: “Are you making the most of your time?”

While thinking about the “week” of my life and how to use them, I decided that there are two good ways to use diamonds:

(1) Enjoy diamonds

(2) Build something to make your future diamond or someone else’s diamond more interesting

In other words, you have a small spoonful of diamonds, and you really want to create a life that makes you happy. If a diamond does not make you happy, it should be simply because you are using it to make other diamonds better in the future, whether it be your own or someone else’s.

In the ideal situation, you can achieve a good balance between 1 and 2, and you can often complete two tasks at the same time (Just like when you love to work) .

Of course, if a diamond is enjoyable, but by enjoying it, you are distorting the diamond of the future Monkey “) , that ’s not very good. Similarly, if you do something for your future with diamonds one after another, it will not only make you happy, but it will never seem to end, it is not good.

But the worst way to use diamonds is that neither 1 nor 2 above can be done. Sometimes, when you are in the wrong profession or relationship, neither will happen, which is usually caused by a lack of courage, self-discipline, or creativity . Sometimes it comes from some distressing and confused questions .

We’ve all had this kind of empty hand, and it feels conceivable. When this happens again and again, frustration, annoyance, despair, and a series of disturbing feelings will come to you.

Of course, such “difficult” moments are actually difficult to avoid in real life, and sometimes “crisis” contains “opportunity”-maybe it is a period of “crazy” and helpless Bring your epiphany to life-but, The chance to “epiphany” like this is not much.

Life Calendar

One of the reasons for falling into the above-mentioned “failure” is that Is not thinking enough seriously , so constant reflection and self-awareness have become one of the most critical skills. Otherwise, you will waste a bunch of precious diamonds because you are in an unconscious state.

To help you stay awake and avoid the place of “failure”, we will teachHome makes a life calendar, putting every week of your life on a piece of paper.

In addition to encouraging daily reflection, we hope that the calendar can help you feel more directional in your life , help you set goals and stick to your goals, and remind you to feel for your achievements Be proud and thankful for the “diamond” in your spoon.

There are many and unlimited ways to use the calendar. For example:

  • Highlight the past few weeks with different colors and divide them into different “Life Chapters” -such as high school, college, job 1, job 2, new city, engagement, Marriage, etc., or maybe other “living chapters” of what it means to you. You can also make special marks on the grid where key turning points occur.


    • Because the grid is big enough, you can use a sharpened pencil to write something in the grid this week after the week.


      • Set your future goals by tagging on a certain grid in the future, and you can clearly know how many weeks it will take to reach this goal.


        • If you are a new parent, it may be very interesting to make such a life calendar for your child so that when they grow up, they can look back on what happened in the first few years of their lives.


          • Or, you just want to watch it quietly.

            The above week map and life calendar remind me that The time of my life is in these grids. We always tend to feel trapped in our daily lives, but these spaces can definitely be any life we ​​want. Everyone you know, everyone you adore, historicalEvery hero, their lives and achievements are accumulated in such a grid.

            These grids also remind us that Life is tolerant. No matter what happens every week, you will get a new grid next week. This makes me want to skip the annual New Year’s wishes (or “New Year Flag”) , because they seem to have never been realized, and focus on Think of new “Week” wishes every Sunday evening for the next week.

            Every blank box is a new beginning, life is so beautiful, and is well documented and cherished.

            This article comes from WeChat public account: Wait But Why (ID: wbwtimurban) , author: Tim Urban, Translator: sub Miao, editor: Vivid, proofing: Edina

            The author of this article, Tim Urban, is a blogger who specializes in writing in-depth and feature-length articles. He is a technology blogger strongly recommended by Tesla’s founder Elon Musk. His AI articles are the most reposted in the world. His fans also include: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook COO Shelly Sandberg and so on.Tim is also one of the most popular speakers on TED’s speech platform ever. The most clicked speech is: “The Inner World of Procrastination.”