Summary: Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and how you can use its waters to reflect on and improve your life. This week’s selection comes from the Roman philosopher Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life, a 2,000-year-old treatise on how we spend our time that still rings true today: It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
