Time as a Currency
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Let’s talk about time. Time is both very real and very abstract for most of us. We are aware of time in the immediate moments, meetings we have to be to, things we have to attend, dinner in the oven. Time governs how we think and plan. Think about a time recently where you were invited to something and you said I don’t have the time to go to that. William Penn once wrote “Time is what we want most but what we use worst.”
I call our current reality Time Abstraction. Given how abstract time is to us, many are unsure exactly how to use time. Some of us are better than others. Prioritizing, living intentional lives, vacationing and running around. Feeling productive and busy, only to arrive at a point in time where we declare wow time flies when you are having fun. We can credit Albert Einstein for that quote.
Neuroscientist Abhijit Naskar says:
Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."
Listen in for tangible strategies on how to slow down time.
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