Not enough time

[Glocky]

When you say, or hear me say, or hear someone else say, "I would do that (could be anything), but I don't have enough time."

What you, me, someone else is really saying is "I would do that (could be anything), but I don't think that it is important enough to stop doing something else."

Agree? Disagree? Discuss.

 

[47]

yeah, means your schedule is full of more important things.

 

[Gatherix]

They're saying "I have so many things on my schedule, on my mind, too many to worry about, that I'm not sure what to prioritize so I'll stick with what I have because it's familiar and (sorta) safer." Not consciously, obviously.

Of course, my opinion is almost certainly biased due to my age, so, you know...

 

[$alvador]

I think there are three possibilities on the table: the first is that a person is prioritizing out of necessity and really just doesn't have time, the second being that a person is simply marginalizing some potential life goals because they don't want to deal with the risks that may be associated, and the final is that the hypothetical thing a person may want to do is really just a parlour trick or other fruitless project that is recognized as a sort of wasted effort.

The second possibility sucks because it really does hold people back. I've met lots of tards who run profitable businesses just because they swung their dick hard enough to get some momentum and on the flipside have met a lot of brilliant people who are working dead-end jobs wasting their abilities because they, verbatim: "just don't want to deal with the risk."