If it makes you feel any better, my husband had to read for a *graduate class* a book which declaimed at length that "efficient time management consists of a) knowing what time is and b) managing it efficiently." (I only wish I were kidding, or at least exaggerating. I read the chapter myself, six times, hoping something would change.)
Now I am wondering if my problem is not, as I had always assumed, that I don't manage time efficiently, but that in fact I don't know what it is. How do you suppose one would find out?
Not, it would appear, by reading this book - never has the relativity of time been so obvious.
I don't think it helped that I hopped around in the background while he read the rest of it, pointing out that he'd be using his time more efficiently to clip his toenails or contemplate bellybutton lint. :)
It's all explained here (http://postcardsfromthezone.blogspot.com/2006/01/138-matter-of-minutes.html).
Time is a series of boxcars, each containing one minute of time. Men in blue overalls build everything in the universe in a boxcar, then move on to the next. If you go to pick up your keys and can't find them where you're sure you left them, then a minute later, they've mysteriously turned up, it's because the men in blue overalls forgot to put them in that boxcar of time.
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Date: 2006-02-02 10:44 pm (UTC)Re: The Redundancy Slayer is on Alert!
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Date: 2006-02-02 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-03 04:47 am (UTC)Now I am wondering if my problem is not, as I had always assumed, that I don't manage time efficiently, but that in fact I don't know what it is. How do you suppose one would find out?
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Date: 2006-02-03 04:49 am (UTC)I don't think it helped that I hopped around in the background while he read the rest of it, pointing out that he'd be using his time more efficiently to clip his toenails or contemplate bellybutton lint. :)
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Date: 2006-02-03 06:53 am (UTC)Time is a series of boxcars, each containing one minute of time. Men in blue overalls build everything in the universe in a boxcar, then move on to the next. If you go to pick up your keys and can't find them where you're sure you left them, then a minute later, they've mysteriously turned up, it's because the men in blue overalls forgot to put them in that boxcar of time.
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Date: 2006-02-05 09:04 pm (UTC)Well, that explanation certainly hadn't occurred to me, although now that you mention it it makes a scary amount of sense.
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Date: 2006-02-02 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-03 04:47 am (UTC)...yeah, I got nothing.