Section 11.1. What Is a Time Waster?

11.1. What Is a Time Waster?

I define a time waster as any activity that has a low ratio of benefit to time spent.

Everything has some kind of benefit. Spending five hours playing video games has an entertainment benefit. However, other things have benefits that might be more valuable to you. For example, spending the same

amount of time to increase your quality of living by doing home repairs has longer-lasting benefits than blasting millions of pixilated aliens.

The things that waste our time at work are differentphone calls with people who never stop talking, inefficient processes, waiting around for all our lunch buddies to assemble so we can leave for lunch, etc.