You hear a lot of people bemoaning the fact they’re “plugged in” too much. “I’m going off the grid this weekend! Need to unplug!”
Certainly, I’m in the circle of the oft-plugged-in and could use a little down time from screen time from time to time. But it’s not being plugged in that I think people grow tired of. It’s how they use their budget of such time.
Social media tools have allowed us to be incredibly schizophrenic in our daily communications. Maintaining an active Twitter account alone can eat up and entire day if you let it. Add email, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, instant messaging, texting and the like and, if you’re even a remotely social person, you burn an awful lot on just the churn of daily conversing.
Warren Buffett would have made an excellent blogger.
Unfortunately, he’s too busy finding places to stack his piles of money to give it a shot but he really could have been something special.
He’s been through highs and lows in the stock market, and has always managed to come out on top. Along the way he’s learned a lot of valuable lessons, and a much of it can be applied to content marketing.
Some of his best insight:
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
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