RSA - The Secret Powers of Time

The Secret Powers of Time

25th Mar 2010; 13:00

(full recording including audience Q&A)
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Every significant choice we make, every important decision, is determined by our perspective on time. It can influence our relationships with friends and loved ones, sabotage careers or help us gain a promotion, and even make us happy, or not. Yet we are virtually unaware of its effects.

In The Time Paradox, award-winning former president of the American Psychological Association Professor Philip Zimbardo and co-author John Boyd draw on thirty years of pioneering research to reveal, for the first time, how your individual time perspective shapes your life and is shaped by the world around you.

Join Philip Zimbardo at the RSA to discover how: the way we perceive time is as unique as our fingerprints; our time zones interact to create national cultures and economies; many mental illnesses have, at their root, a distorted way of perceiving time; our time perspective can dictate our success at school and work, our health and wellbeing and even our finances; where you live in the world, your religion and your schooling can all influence the way you perceive time.

Speaker: Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Stanford and author of The Time Paradox and The Lucifer Effect.

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