Valuable not just useful

Understanding the difference between what’s useful and what’s valuable is too important a skill to be left to chance.

I found this recently and it resonated:

“A corkscrew is useful, a hug from your mother is valuable.

A door is useful, watching a sunset is valuable.

A car is useful, a good friendship is valuable.

Having hobbies is useful, and having faith and praying is valuable.

The useful is almost always more expensive than the valuable.

In fact, what is valuable rarely costs money. This occurs because money is useful but not valuable.

The valuable generates much more happiness in the long term than the useful, yet we often value the useful more than the valuable.”

The same is true for knowing things that are useful but may not be true - a topic one of my favourite people is writing a book about.