This animation, of psychologist Philip Zimbardo lecturing?on the six different ways people perceive time, takes about 10 minutes to watch. Depending on your time orientation, it might seem to take far longer, or seem to rush by. Understanding which “time zone” we inhabit, Zimbardo says, has profound effects on every aspect of life.? (HT: Kottke) [%comments]
Time Is Relative
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I thought it was great. I have a 10 year-old son and I can see the logic in Prof. Zimbardo’s argument. From the 50′s on the generation gap was most obvious in our choice of music; now it will be how we perceive time.
With all due respect Phillipe, catholics have a longer tradition of applying justice and specially judging, protestants are just “chosen” and their actions don’t have to be judged. I think it’s wise to have more catholics in the Supreme Court.
@8- hanmeng: “Luxembourg has the highest GDP in the world, yet is 87% Catholic.”
Actually the Vatican has a higher GDP and is 100% Catholic.
The US GDP is 15 Trillion dollars, so I think the US has them both beat.
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“Our children are big babies with educated thumbs on their joysticks.
Too bad they are not spending 10,000 hours learning a trade or how to be self sufficient. The teenager you don’t chastise today, may be the 55 year old gamer living in your attic rent free and asking ‘what’s for dinner, ma?’”
Wow, maybe #2 was on to something. Did I miss a note about spending a couple of hours a day on average (2.49 hours a day assuming he played 10,000 hours from the age of 10 up to 21) on entertainment making people invalids? It’s possible to balance work and play, and like any other demographic I can think of, the gamers I know range from college dropouts to department heads.
Rudiger in Jersey wrote: Much of our technology and materialism in this modern life is devoted to saving time, like washing machines, frappachino machines, vaccum cleaners, power tools, and fast cars. But ironically all that saved time goes to one thing: more television watching.
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Actually, studies have shown that these technologies have not increased the modern human’s leisure time in any significant way. Our leisure time is about the same as what it was 50 years ago. There seems to be something inherent in human behavior that causes us to fill the time freed by modern conveniences with more work. That said, I’m not an advocate of watching TV because studies have also shown a direct link to depression amongst avid TV viewers.
So we shouldn’t call the young generation “lazy” or the old generation “control freaks”. But beyond that, what are we supposed to do?
Interesting comment about the lack of a direct future tense in Sicilian- I think that’s the first fatalist interpretation of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis I’ve ever come across…
@11: That’s per-capita GDP.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2004rank.html
Luxembourg’s not at the top, but it’s definitely up there, and definitely higher than the United States.
I’m curious as to where you got your numbers for the Vatican. As far as I can tell, they have no domestic production at all.