The Secret Powers of Time
August 26, 2012
Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world. For example, past-oriented vs future-oriented.
Video Source: RSA Animate
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Comments (6)
by Ben
This video was a huge waste of time for me to watch. Are people so easily impressed by cartoon drawings? I guess it distracts away from the emptiness of the speaker.
by Chase
I find it really interesting when you stop and think about what time is to yourself and to others. Obviously it’s not going to be interesting to everyone but I do find it interesting that he talks about certain ways of treating time and how you have shown a perspective of time you spent watching the video.
by Glen Lincoln
I am grateful that Zambardo has these insights. I sought instantaneous pleasures a lot, even doing a variety of drugs (which I still think are perfectly fine, healthy and normal when enjoyed wisely, that is, in moderation), so here he is indicating that young people will be more susceptable to addictive behavior based on gaming, etc. Is there an antidote, a way to train better social skills and personal responsibility? I didn’t see a solution.
But I see young people in the world almost daily, and they seem just as nice and agreeable as anytime I can remember. I am 51 btw.
by Glen Lincoln
That’s Zimbardo, please excuse my mispelling.
by someday69
This time let me be a gaurd,professor Zimbardo,,this prison life is wasting my time,and playing havic with my love life.Oh’and there is the abuse.
by Marcos Marin
Aren’t you mistaking RSA for TSA? lol
btw, there is a mistake in the animation transcription @5:02, he says cultures not countries… I say that because it’s a important distinction even in this gross over-simplification to make it “the most simple idea in the world” @10:01 and not “the most simple thing in the world” :-) though this one is, granted, not important enough to point out, hehehe