https://www.amazon.co.jp/Time-Paradox-Using-Psychology-Advantage/dp/1846041554/
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Paradox-Psychology-Timeto-Advantage/dp/1846041554/
I am thinking of reading this book and want to find out if it will be worth my time.
Has anyone read this book?
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I have started reading the book.
In it they did a study of the countries with the fastest pace of life. They measured walking speed and how long it took to do simple errands.
Which country had the fastest?
Which country had the slowest?
The big point of the book so far is one’s perspective on time. This is a new thought. I have thought more on the amount of time I have had compared to how i have viewed time.
The book shared that people are more willing to waste time than money even though time is a more valuable resource in our lives.
Who has time for this? It looks like a waste of time.
I barely have enough time to change my sock, let a lone time to read this book.
You can read my enlightened take on time here: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what.html
Good questions.
If one can be wiser in using one’s time you come out ahead. Reading a good book can get us out of a mind rut.
I don’t know how you spend your time but once you decide to spend so many minutes a day to reading the books go by quickly.
Centime, time is relative. I grew up in the Midwest, went to high school and college in New England, and served my active duty after my all-expense paid tour of SE Asia in southern California. It was interesting to note the differences in “time”.
Mostly things were tied to the distance you could go in a particular time frame. Back then I lived in Newport Beach, worked at El Toro, and would think nothing of visiting my cousins on a spur of the moment in an evening. They lived in Woodland Hills. That’s about 80 miles north of Newport Beach, but it was an hour drive.
Back in Boston it was a chore to get to Exeter, where my high school was, in an hour and a half, maybe two. And it was a boatload closer in distance. But NE is stuffed (and maybe Kal is now too – but it wasn’t then).
I went to school in Costa Mesa. I had my money in a Newport bank.
Dev, good points about distance in different areas. In Japan in the urban areas it takes forever to get to places.
The country in the book with the fastest pace was Switzerland. (Japan ranked high.) The slowest paced country was Mexico.
Southern states were slower paced than Northern states.
Interesting thought:
In the old days people sold products they produced but now many people sell their time. We “buy” people by the hour.
We always “bought” people by the hour. We just didn’t think of it that way. Working a farm was a dawn to dusk task – until winter, when there was nothing to do. So you read – the bible mostly, but what few other books you might have.
Perhaps the difference today is that we have so many distractions to occupy our time. I play a tank game. It is getting a bit dull now that I’ve played for a while, but I still waste some time playing. I’ve gone back to reading more though. And wasting time on this forum.
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“And wasting time on this forum.”
Dev, you shouldn’t say those things about Pencil’s threads. She does the best she can but let’s face it she has eraser brain at times.
Dev, the farmer gets paid for getting the produce to market. He could work long hours and lose the whole crop due to a storm. I agree hours are spent but his salary goes up and down by prices and weather.
Today we live longer and we have more spending money. We also have such a variety of things to do. We have gone from print, radio, television, Internet, etc for entertainment.
I caught the author talking on YouTube the average boy nowadays spends 100s of hours playing video games by himself. They also get to various areas on the Internet by themselves. The virtual is more in their lives than the real. It is causing problems.
People who are made of polyester-blend yarn really shouldn’t go criticizing somebody else’s threads.
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I don’t cotton to your threads, Pencil.
My daughter lives in NYC and I notice even I walk faster when I’m visiting her there.
The best part of living there is you save on joining a gym. :)
I power walked and dodged the hordes for a full mile and a half everyday while running up and down subway steps simply to get to work.
Also related to time, I am learning how to draw on Photoshop, and it amazes me how the time flies when I’m kind of relearning in a different ‘language’ something I already know how to do with my hands. But I’m doing it to ultimately – save time! Now that is a paradox. Or, on this thread, a pairosox.
The book is covering “suicide” bombers. They have a transcendent time perspective. It takes a belief in a life after death for them to do what they do.
I just finished this book. I would recommend it. It helped me to see life in a new way.