Jönsson, Bodil. _Ten Thoughts about Time_. London: Robinson, 2005. # Progressive Summary # Key Points --- The staircase. Try to climb up the staircase. You'll drop back down many times, but each time it gets easier: - Be able to think about time without getting depressed about it. Stop the cycle of "Damn, I'm always so short of time." - Use a methodical system for organizing time, so you can begin to think about time and link these ideas. - Begin to articulate your ideas to yourself and to others. See your thoughts as a coherent whole so you don't have to start from the beginning each time. - Now you can compare your ideas to those of others. You can relax and have a clear idea of what matters to you. --- The flexibility of the human mind is the main culprit for the acceleration of time. It makes us adapt to machines. Humans are inventive, sensitive and flexible. Technological devices are predictable, lack imagination and are resistant to change. Or to reverse the polarity of value, humans are forgetful, illogical, disorganized and emotional, whereas machines have perfect memories, are precise, logical, highly organised and reliable. Guess which one has to give way. --- The wallet. Imagine you have a wallet with 4 compartments. One contains money. Another is for your human community. A third is your non-human environment, consisting of nature, buildings, things, etc. The fourth is your inner self. Time exists outside of the wallet, the gold standard through which the different currencies can be exchanged for one another. It is the basis for investments and withdrawals. Time is the most essential resource. Everyone gets about 30,000 days and nights on average. Should there be a Time Protection Agency, similar to an Environmental Protection Agency? --- Our relationship to time is the keystone causing the multiple crises that we are facing. # Resonances # Oppositions # Questions # Quotes