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# You Can Do Anything But Not Everything

Really quick one, just because I know I'll reference it a lot and it's more like a footnote explained more than a proper thing unto itself.\
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**You can do / have anything you want, but not everything you want.**

Just means to say, there are finite resources and you often have to pick from things.

This isn't even a bad thing! It just means that, given finite-ness, at some point some priorities will emerge: some things being more important than others.\
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Knowing *which* things are more important, or which things you innately *want to* or *should* choose allows for decisiveness when the decisions come up, which makes you faster and more efficient at moving.

And, you can often phrase things in exactly that sort of balance scale: "do I prefer X or Y more, if I had to pick only one" is playing a game of This Or That, and eventually the choices tournament into a hierarchy which then informs the relative importance of each thing.

Likewise, the things you do most are the things you prioritize most: the evidence being simply that you repeatedly choose to do those things.

This applies to all resources: time, [money,](/brendex/money/investing.md#waxing-philosophical) social capital, knowledge, [productivity](/brendex/work/untitled.md), etc etc.


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