There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history. I want to be clear that I’m not suggesting our troubles with time are somehow all in the

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And that hurry comes from seeing wealth and achievement as cures for my own feelings of inadequacy. But hurry and presence are incompatible. By definition, you can’t give somebody your undivided attention if you’re thinking about something else and all my worst mistakes come from being in a hurry. Given the shortness of life, how can I live

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Breaking time into chunks allows us to treat it like a resource and optimize our use of it. And once it becomes a resource we can use, it because a resource we can misuse, and therein lies the anxiety. But embedded in our habit of time atomization is the assumption that time is finite, scarce, and needs to be conserved. If time weren't scarce,... See more