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If you take "hours spent doing something" as your yardstick, your girlfriend seems to your lowest priority (behind your startup and French lessons). Before you
by BobbyH 17y ago
If you take "hours spent doing something" as your yardstick, your girlfriend seems to your lowest priority (behind your startup and French lessons). Before you ask whether you should choose between your girlfriend or your startup, maybe you should choose between your girlfriend and your French lessons.
- russell 17y agoI agree. Startups are very time consuming, but a good relationship is important for keeping your sanity. Throw away everything else not essential to your health. Give her more attention. IF that doesn't improve the relationship, then you may have a girl friend who is jealous of the startup. If, in the end, you are just a meal ticket to her desires, it wont work in the long run.
- stcredzero 17y agoPrinciple of least regret. Which will you regret passing up the least? Think about 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, and 10. Assign these number values. Make up a contingency tree, to cover the eventualities as they'd happen if your plans don't work out. Also assign number values to the leaves. Weight the leaves according to rough estimates of probability. Choose the path with the least regret.
- Todd 17y agoI disagree. If French lessons are important to him, why should he give them up? It sounds like one of the few things he does for himself (outside of work) and it may provide a good outlet for him to page out his work and focus on something completely different. One possibility is to set aside time explicitly, as he's doing for his class. Going out on an actual date once or twice a week may make up for the heads down time in her mind. It would also provide another way to switch out the working set.
- wehriam 17y agoIn this hypothetical situation, he should give up French lessons to spend more time with his girlfriend.
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