Using your time meaningfully

Nowadays, anyone with even a bit of wisdom deliberately sets aside time to read, generate Bodhichitta, and discipline themselves to do meaningful things. This kind of self-discipline is entirely achievable. In fact, even the founder of Douyin (Chinese version of Tiktok), Zhang Yiming, doesn’t scroll Douyin himself. He once said, “I designed the algorithm to make people addicted, but my brain must remain clear.”

Indeed, for the sake of commercial profit, such platforms deliberately create addictive traps, drawing users into spending large amounts of time and money—forming a terrible “demonic net” in this degenerate age.

In reality, those at the top do not waste their time aimlessly. Bill Gates, for example, requires himself to read one book a week, finishing around 50 books a year. The investor Charlie Munger, who lived to 99, was famously a voracious reader—reportedly reading up to 20 books a week. They compel themselves to pursue higher value, unlike consumers and internet users with lower levels of awareness who easily fall into the traps set by various internet platforms, wasting both time and money.