The time paradox
by Philip G. Zimbardo, John Boyd · first published 1998
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Reveals how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you, interacting to create national cultures, economics, and personal destinies.
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…I've read, then posted them on my site with my top recommendations up top: https://sivers.org/book My top recommendations here for the Hacker News crowd - with a nudge for the under-rated, are: The Time Paradox - by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd https://sivers.org/book/TimeParadox Profound idea that everyone has a primary time focus: either Future-focused, Present-focused, or Past-focused. Fascinating implications…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?” ↗…programming" You might want to read the book The Introvert Advantage by Marti Laney, "Caring for Your Introvert" in The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200303/rauch) and Philip Zimbardo's The Time Paradox, which I wrote about here (http://jseliger.com/2008/09/01/the-time-paradox-—-philip-zim...). Notice this commenter's idea: "[...]the academic part of high school is not challenging enough for you, but…
on “Ask HN: I'm in 10th grade and I hate school. Any suggestions?” ↗…How to get a 700% improvement in volunteers. How to sell more by doubling your prices. How to make people feel they made a choice, when really you made it for them. http://sivers.org/book/Influence The Time Paradox - by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd: See my in-depth article about this book at http://sivers.org/time http://sivers.org/book/TimeParadox
on “Ask HN: Great books you read in 2009?” ↗…& Painters</em> by Paul Graham 5. <em>Man's Search for Meaning</em> by Viktor Frankl 6. <em>Stumbling on Happiness</em> by Daniel Gilbert 7. <em>The Time Paradox</em> by Philip Zimbardo. That last one is particularly important: it points out that, once you've reached a comfortable but, for a highly educated person, relatively low level of income (around…
on “Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?” ↗…Mismatch The Object-to-Table Mapping Problem The Schema-Ownership Conflict The Dual-Schema Problem Entity Identity Issues The Data Retrieval Mechansim Concern The Partial-Object Problem and the Load-Time Paradox If you haven't read the original article, I highly recommend it. You'll learn a bit more about "Vietnam" (from a US perspective), and be better equipped to discuss and make decisions about ORMs afterward.…
on “Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction” ↗I think his observation on time is discussed in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Time-Paradox-Psychology-That-Change/dp... . The third review gives a good summary of the book.
on “Ambition and Imagination” ↗…I also think that most people are bad at anticipating what their future selves will want. That also applies to me, and my feeling has been reinforced by books like Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd's _The Time Paradox_, in which they talk about time preferences and how those change. One reason I like Paul Graham's "What You'll Wish You'd Known": http://paulgraham.com/hs.html is the hang glider metaphor: you don't know…
on “How Universities Work, or: What I Wish I’d Known As a Freshman” ↗The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd explores different time perspectives and how the affect our lives. 6 min TED talk that covers some of the ideas in the book https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healt...
on “Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds” ↗…it, please look into the research on psychological time perspective pioneered by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd ( see e.g. http://www.thetimeparadox.com/ , http://fora.tv/2008/11/12/Philip_Zimbardo_The_Time_Paradox). The interventions they suggest to change the proportions of use of time perspectives might be helpful. Not directly related to you symptoms, I might add that I think there should be no end to the "learning…
on “I am burned out while still in learning phase” ↗