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Tag: years

Precise Passage

June 12, 2021June 12, 2021 ~ cafebedouin

"In one of the last dreams in Lightman’s book, Einstein imagines a world not too dissimilar from our own, where one 'Great Clock' determines the time for everyone. Every day, tens of thousands of people line up outside the Temple of Time where the Great Clock resides, waiting their turn to enter and bow before … Continue reading Precise Passage

Change Your Perspective: Goals & Time Frames

January 2, 2019January 2, 2019 ~ cafebedouin

[Roughly paraphrasing because I don't have the book in front of me] take your ten year life plan and ask, Why can’t I do this in six months? -Peter ThielTim Ferris, "Tools for Titans." New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 The point of the exercise of imagining a time frame twenty times shorter is to see … Continue reading Change Your Perspective: Goals & Time Frames

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