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View the original post: https://drewredifer.com/blog/articles/why-I-make-waking-up-early-a-priority.html Originally published on 2021-09-07 at drewredifer.com.

When you are young you are dependent on others and you have few responsibilities. Therefore you do not have to spend the bulk of your time managing these responsibilities. However, as you age you increase both your independence and the number of things that you are responsible for. You want to maximize this new found independence and responsibility, and in fact I firmly believe that doing so to the best of your ability constitutes a life well lived. For further reading see my article on this topic: Maturity Matters. Unfortunatly, this comes at the expense of your personal time.

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Personal Time

Personal time is time to yourself, time where you are free from distractions from the outside world. It is the time you have each day that you selfishly alot to your selfish pursuits. If you do not make personal time a priority then you will find that you will never have time for yourself.

To illustrate how few hours most of us actually have to ourselves each day lets take a look at the typical employees’s daily schedule:

Typical Employee Schedule

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76 - This article is part of a series.

Maturity Matters

August 22, 2021·8 mins

Maturity Responsibility Discipline

View the original post: https://drewredifer.com/blog/articles/maturity-matters-and-why-it-is-the-responsibility-of-all-of-us-to-bare-our-burden.html Originally published on 2021-08-22 at drewredifer.com. Why it is the responsibility of all of us to bear our respective burdens # As a kid I can remember taking my experience and applying it to the adults around me. I thought most adults were boring because they did not spend their time as I did exploring the woods, hanging out with friends or playing sports all day. In fact now that I think about it this must be why we in society put so much value in professional sports. If you really think about it, professional athletes are the kids that never gave up the dream, they managed to keep playing a childrens game long after the rest of us quit. As you mature, you (should) take on more and more responsibilities and you (should) begin to make the shift of relating more to your exhausted parents than the kids that spend all day running around the neighborhood.

Latin

September 7, 2021·3 mins

Latin Language Classical-Education Books

View the original post: https://drewredifer.com/blog/articles/latin-resources.html Originally published on 2021-09-07 at drewredifer.com. WHY I want to learn it and HOW I plan to do it # Why? # A current long term goal of mine is to read through many of the great works that have come out of Western Culture in chronological order. This year I have slowly been progressing through the great works of the ancient Greeks, starting with the Epics, moving on to the Drama and Lyrical works, followed by the Histories and finishing with the Philosophers. After completing the Greeks I will be moving on to the Romans and this has sparked an interest in looking into how difficult it would be to read these works in the original, Latin.

Choose Independence NOT Dependence

August 17, 2021·7 mins

Independence Technology Ownership Self-Hosting

View the original post: https://drewredifer.com/blog/articles/independence-not-dependence.html Originally published on 2021-08-17 at drewredifer.com. The case for why when given the choice between independence and dependence the default should be to choose independence # When given the option to choose between independence and dependence the defacto choice should be to choose independence, NOT dependence. Sadly, we (the collective American Consoomer) have that backwards. We have grown accustomed to trading away our independence, be that our privacy, personal data, or in many cases our very capacity to think independently. We trade it away for shiny new products that come with the promise of convenience. I say that last part somewhat tongue in cheek because corporations know what sells and employ a standing army of marketers who will sell you on why you need this new product or feature. If they do not get to you first then the dragnet of Youtube Tech Dorks will sell you on the idea with their latest Tech Review upload.

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