The Secret Powers of Time
25 Mar 2010
The Secret Powers of Time
Professor Philip Zimbardo reveals how our individual perspective on time affects our work, health and well-being.
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Zimbardo ripped Tolle - 01 Sep 2010 7:16pm
basically, Tolle wrote the exact same book, in 2004 called the "Power of Now" even the examples that Zimbardo provided are EXACTLY the same....wow I love how we keep ripping at Eastern philosophies and spirtualities for the sake of sacred self-identified egos...bravo/barf.
Tye jacobs - 28 May 2010 10:46am
professor- I just happened upon your vlog through Robert Scoble wherein the same artist converted digital to analog medium as yours. I am 50- always find time to work 24/7/365 but never enough time to get anything else done. Let us know if you have lecture that outlines the route back to family. Great lecture.
A Skeptic - 26 May 2010 8:26pm
There are interesting aspects in this talk but the enormous bias of the speaker really sub-par. 1) The overwhelming religious aspects do not make for good science. On the one hand we have to resist "tempation" but on the other present hedonistic ppl are "the life of the party, fun to be around and creative". Protestant countries are implied to be better than catholic ones because of their have a higher GDP? This is a blatantly misleading. First the GDP of a country could hardly be qualified as a measure to rank a belief system. Second of the G8 countries the catholic/protestant countries is a toss-up while Christianity is much more present in the 3rd world. The only significant commonality is the low religiosity in the developed countries. 2) The assumption that some "categories" are better then other is absurd, each category can be good or bad. Future Positive ppl can become demagogues accepting brutal sacrifices and imposing their views of the future on others. Present Positive ppl will also tend to be arrogant and greedy. Past Positive ppl can be so attached to a fictitious past that they prevent any form of progress. Future Negative ppl can use negative past experiences to drive positive changes. Present Fatalist ppl can be highly skeptical and rational making excellent scientists and/or social critics. Future Negative ppl will always contemplate the worst case scenarios and focus on avoiding them. The essence is that one need not change to be happy but learn to find positive and rewarding outlets. 3) Finally as is the case with many of these self-help gurus. Correlation is taken as causality and a symptom as a syndrome. Post traumatic stress is not caused by past negative nature it is caused by a traumatic event.
theideasguy - 21 Apr 2010 1:13pm
This is a great idea and experiment, but the flaw is in the delivery of meaning to the children. I write on the topic of effective knowledge transmission. The kids (aged4) in most cases did not understand what was required of them, nor did they understand the meaning of the instructions given to them. Nor did they get a change to test or clarify their comprension of the meaning of eat now or wait and benefit later. Interesting though, but a lack of communication delivery skills from the scientist.