This document discusses how time perspective influences many human behaviors and phenomena. It explores factors like geography, culture, religion, and education that shape an individual's time perspective. The document notes that as children we begin as present hedonists focused only on pleasure, but over time our time perspectives are molded by our environments and experiences. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding one's own time perspective to solve life's puzzles and make wise use of time.

1. TIME PARADOX

3. TIME PERSPECTIVE
• Is a foundation essential for many basic human
features and phenomena, such as:
• Achievement needs, causal thinking, hope,
guilt, revenge, impulsivity, improvisation
• And much more as we will see

4. FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE
TIME PERSPECTIVE
• Geography, climate
• Culture
• Religion
• Social class
• Educational level
• Political&Economic stability

5. Geography explains
• The closer you are to the equator...
• The more you’re in an environment that
doesn’t change..

6. LIFE BEGINNING
We all begin life as present hedonists.
Avoid pain and seek only for pleasure.

7. WHERE DO PROBLEMS COME
FROM?
• By the time boy is 21 he has spent 10,000 hours
playing video games alone.
• It means they live in a world they create.

8. REVOLUTION IN TIME
• We live in the digital culture, where it’s
about the SECOND.

9. Quotes
If your past is in quarrel with your present…the cost will
be your future “Winston Churchill”
He who controls the past controls the future…he who
controls the present controls the past “George Orwell”
Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the
past or present are certain to miss the future
“John.F.Kennedy”

10. CONCLUSION
Many of life’s puzzles can be solved by
understanding YOUR Time Perspective, and
others.
Think time. Balance time. Use time Wisely.

11. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION.