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The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life by John Boyd, Philip G. Zimbardo

rbogue's review

4.0

The Time Paradox – The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life may have a hyperbole for a sub-title but the insights that it provides are valuable. I try to look for new perspectives to view the world around me. Being a consultant and speaker means I meet lots of people and it helps to be able to understand where they’re coming from. This book provided me another way to frame my thinking about how others think differently.

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mels0507's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

3njennn's review

4.0

The idea that people have different time perspectives that affect outcomes in life was new to me but makes sense. This is possibly a more useful way to categorize people than the various personality tests that are more familiar.

fcannon's review

3.0

Time-orientation is a really interesting frame to look at your motivations, interactions, conflicts, tendencies. But it could potentially be applied to everything (kind of like "growth mindset"), which means it's probably best as a broad lens for seeing a general direction, and not as a detailed explanation for a specific situation. This book is worth reading, but the core idea could be explained in 20 pages -- the rest is a fairly obvious extrapolation, and the detailed advice for making changes based your orientation is superficial and a bit cartoonish.