The in-between moments. The lulls. The waiting. The extra time you were planning to get.
What do you do in these moments?
For many of us, these brief windows are instantly filled with what Seneca called "busy idleness"—we get occupied by mindless and meaningless distractions. We check email. We look up at the TV. We gossip. We just sit there waiting for it to be over.
"The way I sometimes phrase it is, What do you do when you have nothing to do? For a lot of people, when they have nothing to do—when they've got a ten second break while they're standing in line at the store, or when they have five minutes in between a meeting—what they do is they scroll on their phone…That's the default mode that they go into when they have nothing to do. And what I've really tried to do—I'm still working on this, I definitely don't have this figured out—is have a better answer to, what do I do when I have nothing to do?"
In Book 1 of Meditations, this is one of the things Marcus said he admired about Antoninus—that he was "not prone to [be] pulled in all directions, but sticking with the same old places and the same old things." Antoninus knew what he did when he had nothing to do. He was able to avoid being pulled in all directions because he had his defaults. He had priorities. He had discipline.
We encourage you to figure out yours. Because those in-between moments? They're not insignificant. They are your life!
It's time, time you won't ever get back. So use it. Because it adds up, shaping not just our days but our lives.
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