Keynote

The problem with time

What does clock-time cost our resilience, our energy and our best thinking?
Time
13:30
Speakers
Brage Johansen, Founder & CEO, Earth Moves

Since the industrial era we have built our lives around the clock, and forgotten the rhythms we evolved with. Brage Johansen on the history of time and how to build a relationship with it that helps us thrive.

Time is a construct we have put upon nature, including our own. Since the industrial era, we have forced ourselves into timetables in the name of productivity and profit. We have built our societal rhythm on the clock, and meanwhile forgotten that humans evolved for millennia with nature: the sun, the seasons, and the cycles and movements of our planet. And we have forgotten to ask what it costs our resilience, our energy and our best thinking when we run on clock-time, chasing the next meeting instead of following our deeper rhythms.

In this talk he will unpack:

  • The history of time as a human construct
  • Why the clock-mindset is failing us, and what it costs our big thinking
  • How we build a relationship with time that helps us thrive