Spotify released their 2020 Wrapped this week. Now, if you know me, you know that Spotify Wrapped is right up my alley. Data, marketing, personalization, all combined, it’s awesome! I, personally, love seeing what I listened to most. I also love thinking about how I spend my time.
This year I spend a total of 24,032 minutes listening to Spotify! That’s crazy! That’s 400 hours, almost 16 days! How much time did you spend listening to Spotify?
It’s cool to see how much time we spent listening to music and podcasts but I wonder if Netfllix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu did a “2020 Wrapped” if it would be as well-received. Maybe not. We can easily make the case that we can multitask while listening to music and podcasts can be educational and informative, both are true. It may be less fun to be faced with the total number of hours we spent glued to the screen. Plus, after everything else in 2020, seeing how much time we spent binging shows would probably just add insult to injury. Would we consider it time well spent?
In all seriousness, though, we all know that we only have 24 hours in a day. Same as everyone else. But let’s not compare what we do with those 24 hours with what someone else does. Let’s decide for ourselves what we are going to do with our time. Let’s be intentional with it. Let’s use it. Use it to learn, to serve, and to make the world a better place. That’s time well spent.