The Secret Powers of Time

Brilliant.  By Philip Zimbardo on kottke.org.

"The six different time zones are:

1. Past positive: focus is on the "good old days," past successes, nostalgia, etc.
2. Past negative: focus on regret, failure, all the things that went wrong
3. Present hedonistic: living in the moment for pleasure and avoiding pain, seek novelty and sensation
4. Present fatalism: life is governed by outside forces, "it doesn't pay to plan"
5. Future: focus is on learning to work rather than play
6. Transcendental Future: life begins after the death of the mortal body

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