What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?

What would you do with 52 hours a week of discretionary time?

Make your time count.

Published: 04 June 2023

Productivity

Tim Urban has a good article describing how we have 100 10-minute "blocks" per day when we aren't sleeping. It's a great article, but I want to reframe it a little. I just filled out his graph for my weekdays:

8 hours doing school, 2 hours of eating, 50m each of commute & self-care.

So after a typical weekday I only have 30 blocks = 300 minutes left of discretionary time after completing the "essentials" ? Come on! Thankfully things look better on the weekend: 2 hours of eating and 50m of self-care.

That's better! On weekends I get 83 blocks = 830 minutes left of discretionary time. Let's calculate the amount of discretionary time that I get per week:

5 * 300 + 2 * 830 = 3160 minutes = 52.66 hours

For sake of argument let's say 52 hours. That's a lot of time.

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