The Time Traveling Mistake We Make When We Procrastinate - By Hal Hershfield - Behavioral Scientist
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The Time Traveling Mistake We Make When We Procrastinate - By Hal Hershfield - Behavioral Scientist
Philip G. Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University, has studied how we as humans perceive time.1 It seems that humans live in six psychological time zones: two in the past, two in the present, and two in the future. He divides the past into positive (those who are nostalgic, but also the keepers of family records, etc.) and
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