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The Secret Powers of Time

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Time just passes by, regardless of how we feel about it... right? Not according to Philip Zimbardo. He's been studying how people think of time for decades and has some amazing findings. Here's an animated look at how our time-orientation shapes our families, careers, and happiness.
Be The Change
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 Learn more about the deep research of Dr. Zimbardo, who is famous showing how 'good' people can change easily.
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 Practice awareness of your own time perspective - think through what drives major actions in your life and consider possible changes.
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 Next time you're in a conversation, focus more on asking questions than speaking - understand the perspective of the other person deeply.
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Reflections (31)

Engelique Tocao
As an elementary teacher, I could not agree more of how attached children are to gadgets and technology. Their orientation these days is too far from what we had been oriented with during our time. But the key there is just to use technology at our advantage. since they want technology, let's use technology in class (and that takes a lot of technologicals skills). Or else, the pupils will all be just PASSIVE(asmentioned in the video) and would definitely turn out DISASTROUS!
On the other hand, Filipinos have close family ties, so we do not have much problem about being with our family especially during meal time. We love to spend time with our family. I guess that's one of the best practice we have.
Thank you for making this one.
Garrett Denmon
This video just confirms what I have already found to be true. I'm in college now and I see everyone around me scurrying about trying to "make it". I notice that peoples perception of time even changes from person to person. You ever wonder how there is people out there that have 80 hr work weeks and still find time to hit the gym and have friends. I honestly believe that they perceive time much slower in a way. So an hour to them would be like three hours to another person. I do believe however anyone can become like that it just takes practice. The video definitely reinforced my belief on this subject.
terri townsend
I think you should watch this video.
marie
It has me think about how life will be 20 to 50 years from now. Family values has decreased while technology is increasing.
Irene
Is all about how we perceive time
marc
fantastic! answers many questions I've had for years
Eroca
Loved the lecture with the drawings, and the lecture itself gave me some new info I had never known about before.
Thanks so much.
Deepak
It is a fantastic video
Learned a lot
Christy
There is another concept: no time. The definition of time is a man-made construct. Man marked it as communities grew to depend on each other. The sun/moon movement was logical to track, to make collective plans. Try this: imagine there is no time. Just now, present, in your body. Everything slows down. What research is available on this line of thinking?
Mike m
Shortly before my grandfather died, he sat me on his lap and said, Time will go faster as you get older, he was right. I think it's because things are less exciting as we age. As a child the most pedestrian things are wondrous and a few minutes looking at a grasshoppers can seem like forever and you might remember that moment for your whole life. Fewer and fewer discoveries occur as we age and life becomes pedestrian. ThE key is to stay enthusiastic about even the most seemingly, trite things.
Dad
You will like this, is a fact!
Dad
It's all about time!
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