How to Manipulate Time
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How to Manipulate Time
because the assumption that time is something we can possess or control is the unspoken premise of almost all our thinking about the future, our planning and goal-setting and worrying. So it’s a constant source of anxiety and agitation, because our expectations are forever running up against the stubborn reality that time isn’t in our possession an
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
As the writer David Cain points out, we never have time in the same sense that we have the cash in our wallets or the shoes on our feet. When we claim that we have time, what we really mean is that we expect it. “We assume we have three hours or three days to do something,” Cain writes, “but it never actually comes into our possession.” Any number ... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
the assumption that time is something we can possess or control is the unspoken premise of almost all our thinking about the future, our planning and goal-setting and worrying.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
time is an artifact of human experience.