"And as the wise often do, Bergson reevaluated the most fundamental of things--like time itself and he had a profound and unique understanding of the nature of time. He criticizes “clock time” as being tyrannical and imprecise. It might be useful, perhaps, for scientific research, he said, but not for living. Rather, a more precise notion of time is what is best left un-translated as he thought of time as dureé-réelle, which could be translated as, though you may clumsily translate it, as "duration." Instead of time being this thing on the wall or on the watch, time is your ongoing, fluid experience, your consciousness. If we use Bergson’s lens to understand these things, we can then make the conclusion that management of tasks is actually management of time--which is actually management of consciousness. That is to say that when you’re trying to get people on the same schedule (or not), you’re actually talking about managing their consciousness, their experience of life. Which is really quite the thing, isn’t it?" The Paradox Of Doing More Henri-Louis Bergson French Nobel laureate
Posted on: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 03:46:26 +0000
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