Philip Zimbardo and the Time meta-program

Image (c) Patrick in ze Netherlands

This video does a great job of describing how a difference in someone's preferred time meta-program completely alters the way that person, or that culture of people see the world. After you watch this video, you could easily classify every single person you know and really discover the benefits of, for certain activities, existing in the present, past, or future.

Consider Leslie Cameron-Bandler, Michael Lebeau, and David Gordon's book, The Emprint Method: A Guide to Reproducing Competence which makes explicit how our orientation in time is critical to the success of every single strategy we employ as human being. If you find the video interesting, the book is the next logical step, as it describes how to elicit and change the time frame for a given activity to allow for success where Zimbardo only begins to describe the lack thereof...