Time and Us
“But the quest to spend time the way we do money is doomed to failure, because the time we experience bears little relation to time as read on a clock. The brain creates its own time, and it is this inner time, not clock time, that guides our actions. In the space of an hour, we can accomplish a great deal – or very little. Inner time is linked to activity. When we do nothing, and nothing happens around us, we’re unable to track time… Believing time is money to lose, we perceive our shortage of time as stressful. Thus, our fight-or-flight instinct is engaged, and the regions of the brain we use to calmly and sensibly plan our time get switched off…Tasks take longer. We make mistakes – which take still more time to iron out…. The perceived lack of time becomes real: We are not stressed because we have no time, but rather, we have no time because we are stressed.”
By Stefan Klein, “The time of our lives” – ST Review, March 8 2008.
1 comment:
I think this is cool. Initially when I read it, I thought there was a lot of relation with you and your attachment. heh. Then I saw how it's applicable. I was on my flight back to Spore and I was planning what to do in that 6 hr 45mins journey back and boy, was every minute of it fruitful! At least it felt that way =)
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