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RSA Animate – The Secret Powers of Time

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Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world. View the full video of Professor Philip Zimbardo’s talk at the RSA.



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  • http://phoebebright.myopenid.com/ Phoebe Bright

    Makes sense of a unacknowledged characteristic of Irish society which says that planning is bad karma, at least planning beyond the most immediate future. I realised this one day when I was walking the course for a show jumping competition. I always walk the jump off course (a shorted course for all those who jump around clear in the first round) because that is the only opportunity and I want to plan the round in my head in case I get through the first round. I offered to share the jump-off course, written on the back of my hand, with a group of my fellow competitors. Their response ranged from “I'll worry about that when the time comes”, “That would be bad luck!”, “Let's concentrate on getting clear in the first round”. And this is a familiar experience in participating in national and regional development planning.

    In my case, clearly the English/Protestant family influence is winning over the Irish cultural upbringing in this instance. Now it all makes sense!

  • Charles Parrish

    These videos are spectacular, and I think adding an interactive visual, possibly including clickable areas that play corresponding speech segments, of the entire whiteboard for each video would benefit my ability to internalize the large quantity of information.

  • Lennart

    I just found out about these valuable “lessons” given in a very amusing way!

    If all videos on RSA would be this amusing, i would buy the DVD!

  • Barbara Nunn

    I was really captured by this -excellent, lively communication !

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    Absolutely brilliant! Thank you. I hope they are available in podcast format on iTunes :)

  • Peterson378

    I always walk the jump off course (a shorted course for all those who jump around clear in the first round) because that is the only opportunity and I want to plan the round in my head in case I get through the first round. I offered to share the jump-off course, written on the back of my hand, with a group of my fellow competitors.
    Any way excellent, lively communication !

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  • celebrate

    wonderful video, brilliant and very useful ideas that I will certainly use in my work to encourage people to understand and work with cultural diversity. thank you.

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  • Tamazra

    excellent! for me, this link to the mindfulness approach which is basically about SLOWING DOWN to take a look at the actions/reactions/assumptions etc we are making. I have forwarded this to about 20 people!

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    how big is that paper?

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    That was the longest sentence ever, Daniel…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GAECPF4W66CA7I5HHM5L2H46PI Mike

    You need to make a DVD compilation of all the animated lectures. It would sell.
    They are wonderful.

  • Vampluptuous

    I agree totally with what you are saying about sitting down as a family. I was watching my 2 nephews and I made them mac and cheese for dinner. I sat down at they table and ate with them. They asked me, “You're sitting at the table with us?” I was shocked. Why would they ask something like that? That's when it hit me that this IS a changing world. Parents don't sit down with their children. They don't discuss their days anymore. They don't know what's going on with their lives. I also feel that this is part of the teenage pregnancy problem as well. Parents “don't have time” for their children anymore and are always running around using up every second of their lives, sacrificing the really important things in life.

  • http://ekinci.tumblr.com Ky Ekinci

    Mr. Zimbardo is still rocking!

  • mazarie

    Amazing !

  • Sammyecclescake

    who is the animator?

  • Harve

    The message itself is excellent and so true. The presentation is brilliant. If methods like this were used in education to get the attention of students learning would be more fun. Great stuff all the way around.

  • Jean-Thierry

    Its brilliant

    JT Winstel

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  • Wordsbylacy

    That was great. I don’t like thinking about time. I am trying to live in the here and now, and not in the past. I also am looking toward an improved future……This also helps to realized some of the obstacles that my own children might have as being game connisieurs…however…are they obstacles??????? Thanks, LACY.

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    This may be the most intriguing and inspiring of these videos that I’ve seen, although I tend to love them all, particularly the one on the history of democracy.  These lectures are brilliant.

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  • http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk The RSA

    Thank you for your email. I’m out of the office. I’ll be back in the office on Monday 15th Aug.

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    Hermes  has continued its acquisition of holdings of shares from the market
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    holding company Hermes.  Since June, has spent up to € 114.5 million to
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    Association that almost every week in the company’s stock price high on the
    occasion, but also buy back shares at this lower weight, and questioned whether
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  • Mark Trombly

    Is it possible to get a bibliography for this video?  It would be nice to take a look at some of the studies that they are quoting.