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ARTICLE: MAKE TIME FOR TIME
“Donner du temps au temps,” the late French President François Mitterrand used to say. “Give time for time.” The notion being that you need to make time in order to appreciate the ultimate gift we have been given: time on this earth. Every day, we make conscious and less conscious choices on time allocation. Some uses of our time are routine — dropping off kids, eating meals, or going for a daily run. In between those routines, we look to our agendas to see what we are meant to be doing, whom to meet, when and where to go next.
LITERATURE: CREATIVITY UNDER THE GUN
People often come up with their best ideas when time is tight-at least that’s what many executives assume. The trouble is, as new research reveals, it’s not true.
LITERATURE: HOW TO KILL CREATIVITY
Keep doing what you’re doing. Or, if you want to spark innovation, rethink how you motivate, reward, and assign work to people.
PAPER: WHY TIME POVERTY MATTERS FOR INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS AND NATIONS
Giurge, L.M., Whillans, A.V. & West, C. Why time poverty matters for individuals, organisations and nations. Nat Hum Behav 4, 993–1003 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0920-z
Over the last two decades, global wealth has risen. Yet material affluence has not translated into time affluence. Most people report feeling persistently ‘time poor’—like they have too many things to do and not enough time to do them. Time poverty is linked to lower well-being, physical health and productivity. Individuals, organisations and policymakers often overlook the pernicious effects of time poverty. Billions of dollars are spent each year to alleviate material poverty, while time poverty is often ignored or exacerbated. In this Perspective, we discuss the societal, organisational, institutional and psychological factors that explain why time poverty is often under appreciated. We argue that scientists, policymakers and organisational leaders should devote more attention and resources toward understanding and reducing time poverty to promote psychological and economic well-being.
VIDEO: ATUL GAWANDE - THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO
Atul Gawande – discussing his book, The Checklist Manifesto at Microsoft Research
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, more advanced technologies: neither seems to prevent grievous errors. There is a remedy in the most humble and simple of all techniques: the checklist. We can identify successful people in many fields who turn to checklists to pull off some of the most difficult tasks, and places where the impact of the checklist is huge:
- in the complex world of surgery, a simple ninety second checklist has cut the rate of fatalities by a third
- a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units that has virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection
- a restaurant where checklists allow a kitchen and dining room to run like a finely tuned symphony
Aside from the great successes there is an inevitable resistance to accepting the discipline of a checklist-a tension between the autonomy experts want and the sense of discipline success actually requires.
VIDEO: THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO - SHORTER
RESEARCH PAPER: DOES TIME MANAGEMENT WORK
Aeon, B., Faber, A., & Panaccio, A. (2021). Does time management work? A meta-analysis. PloS one, 16(1), e0245066
Does time management work? We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the impact of time management on performance and well-being. Results show that time management is moderately related to job performance, academic achievement, and wellbeing. Time management also shows a moderate, negative relationship with distress. Interestingly, individual differences and contextual factors have a much weaker association with time management, with the notable exception of conscientiousness. The extremely weak correlation with gender was unexpected: women seem to manage time better than men, but the difference is very slight. Further, we found that the link between time management and job performance seems to increase over the years: time management is more likely to get people a positive performance review at work today than in the early 1990s. The link between time management and gender, too, seems to intensify: women’s time management scores have been on the rise for the past few decades. We also note that time management seems to enhance wellbeing—in particular, life satisfaction—to a greater extent than it does performance. This challenges the common perception that time management first and foremost enhances work performance, and that wellbeing is simply a byproduct.
RESEARCH PAPER: MAKING TIME MATTER
Rudd, M., Catapano, R., & Aaker, J. (2019). Making time matter: A review of research on time and meaning. Journal of consumer psychology, 29(4), 680-702. Link
In this conceptual article, we review three decades of research on time and meaning in consumer research and psychology to identify key themes that have emerged, build frameworks that integrate past research, and reveal areas of potential for future empirical exploration. We begin by carving out a conceptual understanding of meaning in life and identifying time as a key lens through which the pursuit of meaning can be viewed. We then review extant research on how to spend and construe time in ways that enhance meaning, relying on two frameworks—one anchored in three dimensions of meaning (purpose, mattering, and comprehension) and the other in three levels of time (momentary, day-to-day, and lifetime). We conclude by outlining several directions for future research focused on deepening our understanding of how consumers can think about and use their time in ways that boost their sense of meaning in life.
Keywords: Meaning; Time; Well-being
BOOK: 168 HOURS
Laura Vanderkam – 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
There are 168 hours in a week. This is your guide to getting the most out of them.
It’s an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we’d like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren’t enough hours to do it all. Or if we don’t make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in.
There has to be a better way…and Laura Vanderkam has found one. After interviewing dozens of successful, happy people, she realized that they allocate their time differently than most of us. Instead of letting the daily grind crowd out the important stuff, they start by making sure there’s time for the important stuff. When plans go wrong and they run out of time, only their lesser priorities suffer.
BOOK: I KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT
Laura Vanderkam – I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time
“Having it all” has become the subject of countless books, articles, debates, and social media commentary, with emotions running high in all directions. Many now believe this to be gospel truth: Any woman who wants to advance in a challenging career has to make huge sacrifices. She’s unlikely to have a happy marriage, quality time with her kids (assuming she can have kids at all), a social life, hobbies, or even a decent night’s sleep–but what if balancing work and family is actually not as hard as it’s made out to be? What if all those tragic anecdotes ignore the women who quietly but consistently do just fine with the juggle?
BOOK: FELT TIME
An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness.
We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. (“Are we there yet?”) Boredom is often connected to our sense of time passing (or not passing). As people grow older, time seems to speed up, the years flitting by without a pause. How does our sense of time come about? In Felt Time, Marc Wittmann explores the riddle of subjective time, explaining our perception of time—whether moment by moment, or in terms of life as a whole. Drawing on the latest insights from psychology and neuroscience, Wittmann offers a new answer to the question of how we experience time.
Wittmann explains, among other things, how we choose between savoring the moment and deferring gratification; why impulsive people are bored easily, and why their boredom is often a matter of time; whether each person possesses a personal speed, a particular brain rhythm distinguishing quick people from slow people; and why the feeling of duration can serve as an “error signal,” letting us know when it is taking too long for dinner to be ready or for the bus to come. He considers the practice of mindfulness, and whether it can reduce the speed of life and help us gain more time, and he describes how, as we grow older, subjective time accelerates as routine increases; a fulfilled and varied life is a long life. Evidence shows that bodily processes—especially the heartbeat—underlie our feeling of time and act as an internal clock for our sense of time. And Wittmann points to recent research that connects time to consciousness; ongoing studies of time consciousness, he tells us, will help us to understand the conscious self.
BOOK: MASTER YOUR TIME, MASTER YOUR LIFE
In Master Your Time, Master Your Life, international speaker, productivity expert, and bestselling author Brian Tracy explains why tackling the right project at the right time is of the utmost importance. By using our time in the appropriate way in the most important areas of our lives, we will accomplish much more, faster and more easily than we ever thought possible. Based on the latest research in the field of productivity, Tracy identifies the ten different “times” in which we operate and the unique approach required for each of these in order to perform at our very best.
Master Your Time, Master Your Life provides simple steps to determine when we will be most productive for a specific task and when to move on to the next item on our list and presents an essential blueprint for achieving our optimal productivity that will change our lives for the better.
BOOK: TIME WARPED
Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, plus original research, writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond delves into the mysteries of time perception and offers advice for how to better manage our own.
Why does life speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head sometimes move at a different speed from the one on the wall? Have you ever tried to spend a day without looking at a clock or checking your watch? It’s almost impossible. Time rules our lives, but how much do we understand it? And is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it?
BOOK: YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE
The brain – the most complex dynamical system in the known universe – tells, represents, and perceives time in multiple ways. In this virtuosic work of popular science, neuroscientist and best-selling author Dean Buonomano investigates the intricate relationship between the brain and time: What is time? Why does time seem to speed up or slow down? Is our sense that time flows an illusion? Buonomano presents his own influential theory of how the brain tells time, and he illuminates such concepts as free will, consciousness, spacetime, and relativity from the perspective of a neuroscientist. Drawing on physics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Your Brain Is a Time Machine reveals that the brain’s ultimate purpose may be to predict the future, and thus that your brain is a time machine.
BOOK: TIME, CONSUMPTION AND EVERYDAY LIFE
Has material civilization spun out of control, becoming too fast for our own well-being and that of the planet? This book confronts these anxieties and examines the changing rhythms and temporal organization of everyday life. How do people handle hurriedness, burn-out and stress? Are slower forms of consumption viable?
This volume brings together international experts from geography, sociology, history, anthropology and philosophy. In case studies covering the United States, Asia, and Europe, contributors follow routines and rhythms, their emotional and political dynamics, and show how they are anchored in material culture and everyday practice. Running themes of the book are questions of coordination and disruption; cycles and seasons; and the interplay between power and freedom, and between material and natural forces. The result is a volume that brings studies of practice, temporality and material culture together to open up a new intellectual agenda.
BOOK: THE ART OF STOPPING TIME
Discover the deepest secrets of time and take control of your life.
By following the 100-day Gong ritual – allocating a set amount of time each day, a ‘Gong’, to everyday tasks – you will not only find your mind is calmer and clearer but also that you have the space to accomplish what you want in life.
Taoist Minister and New York Times bestselling author Pedram Shojai shows how the ancient spiritual practice of stopping time can be turned into a simple and effective life skill to help you feel less stressed, more rested and able to focus on what matters most.
BOOK: TAKE TIME FOR YOUR LIFE
Cheryl Richardson – Take Time For Your LIfe
America’s #1 personal coach offers an inspiring, practical, seven-step program to help you create the life you want.
Step 1: If you think “selfish” is a dirty word, learn to practice extreme self-care–put yourself at the top of the list and everyone else will benefit!
Step 2: If your schedule doesn’t reflect your priorities, stop reacting to life and take control of what gets your time and attention.
Step 3: Identify the things that drain you and eliminate them–people, places, and things–once and for all.
Step 4: If you feel trapped by money, investing in your financial health will stop making you feel like a victim.
Step 5: Kick the adrenaline habit! Identify the things that fuel you and discover healthy, new sources of energy.
Step 6: If you feel lonely or isolated, learn how to surround yourself with high-quality relationships that support, challenge, and encourage you to be your best.
Step 7: Don’t let life get in the way of your spiritual well-being–connect to your inner wisdom and create a personal practice.