Sunday, July 23, 2006

Driving is a blue-collar activity

4:00

Driving is a low-value activity that takes away your valuable time. Time which you could have spent reading a book, reviewing your agenda on a Palm pilot, or learning a foreign language through the use of cue cards.

Driving is a blue-collar activity that serious careerists should delegate to bus drivers or taxis or the public transit system.

If you are driving your car to work, and it takes you a total of 40 minutes (per day), then that is a 40 minutes every day that you will never get back.

Meanwhile, your competitor (for the budget, the corner office, the major account, etc.) might be taking the metro or the bus, and learning valuable stuff on his Palm pilot every day.

Every day, your competitors might be gaining on you by investing that 40 minutes into his own professional development through the use of m-learning devices (mobile learning) such as PDAs.