It's perhaps not so simple. I'm a pathology resident. My only interest in cars is to move my family around for the lowest cost (in time and money) per mile. My

It's perhaps not so simple. I'm a pathology resident. My only interest in cars is to move my family around for the lowest cost (in time and money) per mile. My time costs a fair bit, and experience has taught me a new Honda every 200,000 miles is cheaper overall (in time and money) than used cars. Try finding a used Honda Accord without a salvage title. My work is dictated by the needs of various hospitals and clinics. Some days I work from 5 am to 11 pm and come in on the weekend to finish. Some days, like today, I'm on Hacker News at 9:30 am because I'm waiting for: * techs to pull some cases for my research project, * my batch of surgical cases to come out, and * tumor board at 11, which I prep'd for yesterday. I suppose I could be working on a rosalind.info problem right now, but I crushed one on the first attempt yesterday, so I'll delay that until this afternoon, probably after a 5 mile run through the San Diego zoo. I could be working with the videographer for my lab video (requested by some grants) but ... I don't want to. Although, I have 40 minutes, so maybe I could review the script. We save a fair bit but we also spend on lessons for the kids and an annual vacation. I'm always busy, because I want to wring every ounce of awesome I can out of life. There are a number of life lessons that go into this. Find work that you enjoy. Live within your means. Exercise. Get plenty of sunshine. Eat less. Set low expectations, you'll succeed more often and ultimately get further. Give employees specific, actionable tasks ("specific" may vary depending on who you're talking to, and learning where to draw that line is a life-long exercise). Learn how to modify your own behavior by modifying your environment. For example: throw away your TV. This will significantly reduce your exposure to advertising. Similarly, subscribe to a good music service: you'll avoid the ads and your taste will drift away from the mainstream toward whatever you genuinely enjoy. Avoid the news. There's so much news that someone else will know whatever's going on and you're ignorance will give them an opportunity to tell you. All of a sudden, you're having a valuable conversation. I have adopted Knuth's position: other people make it their job to stay on top of things. My job is to get to the bottom.