## The Opportunity Cost of Everything Young Money by Jack Raines ### The Opportunity Cost of Everything | Young Money by Jack Raines ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) #### Metadata * Author: [[youngmoney.co]] * Full Title: The Opportunity Cost of Everything | Young Money by Jack Raines * Category: #articles * URL: <https://www.youngmoney.co/p/opportunity-cost-everything-c53e> #### Highlights * In his autobiography Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey said, "When we truly latch on to the fact that we are going to die at some point in time, we have more presence in this one." * Tell me if this sounds familiar: Wake up at 7:30. Roll out of bed, log on your computer at 8:00. Sit around in your sweatpants, make some coffee. Work for thirty minutes, then mindlessly scroll through social media. Maybe you eat some leftovers for lunch. Maybe you pick something up. Back to the computer til five. Then you hit the gym. Come home and shower. Watch football/The Bachelor/Game of Thrones/whatever. Then you make dinner and go to sleep, because it was a long day! And then you do that over and over and over and over again. * Hustle and apathy are two sides of the same coin. * I quit a steady job. Lived out of a backpack in 19 countries for four months. Started working for an anonymous meme page (which makes "what do you do for a living" a really fun question to answer). I used to be terrified of sharing my thoughts online, and now I've published 100+ articles in six months. # The Opportunity Cost of Everything | Young Money by Jack Raines ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article4.6bc1851654a0.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[youngmoney.co]] - Full Title: The Opportunity Cost of Everything | Young Money by Jack Raines - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.youngmoney.co/p/opportunity-cost-everything-c53e ## Highlights - In his autobiography Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey said, "When we truly latch on to the fact that we are going to die at some point in time, we have more presence in this one." - Tell me if this sounds familiar: Wake up at 7:30. Roll out of bed, log on your computer at 8:00. Sit around in your sweatpants, make some coffee. Work for thirty minutes, then mindlessly scroll through social media. Maybe you eat some leftovers for lunch. Maybe you pick something up. Back to the computer til five. Then you hit the gym. Come home and shower. Watch football/The Bachelor/Game of Thrones/whatever. Then you make dinner and go to sleep, because it was a long day! And then you do that over and over and over and over again. - Hustle and apathy are two sides of the same coin. - I quit a steady job. Lived out of a backpack in 19 countries for four months. Started working for an anonymous meme page (which makes "what do you do for a living" a really fun question to answer). I used to be terrified of sharing my thoughts online, and now I've published 100+ articles in six months.