Pondering Time

I continued to mull on the “challenge” given in yesterday’s post to leverage time rather than be bound by time.  The thoughts meandering their way through were … (and a really cool video follows) 



1) A not-news news story earlier in the week reporting Canadians are feeling more squeezed for time.

Even more baffling about our perceptions of time are these two statements from the report:



I think sometimes we suffer from the notion that the more hours we work, the more productive the company really is or the business or the individual is and the reality is that’s not the case

the fact that 17 to 25 per cent of Canadian kids and youth weren’t regularly participating in any organized sport or lesson is “of considerable concern.”



This is starting to sound like Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  Working too many hours is wrong and being unscheduled is wrong.  And so the quest for “just right” begins.

Maybe we should throw out the concept of balance and trying to find a happy median, and instead start focusing on finding a happy medium.



2) Hermione Granger’s Time Turner is the first thing that pops to mind when I think of leveraging time.

Should we really be so quick to relegate the concept of time travel to the world fiction and the imagination?



3) And then late afternoon via the TED Blog I happened upon this really cool presentation by Phillip Zimbard at RSA on our changing perceptions of time.