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#226: How to Not Be Evil - Dr. Phil Zimbardo

The Tim Ferriss Show

CHAPTER

The Time Paradox

Every significant choice, every important decision we make is determined by our perception of time. Time perspective is the way you categorize and partition your sense of time into categories of past, present and future. For some people, their answers are always focused around all the good things, good times, good awards, successes, birthday parties. Other people are present fatalists who say, it doesn't pay to plan for the future. My life is controlled by fate. If you're Muslim, Allah controls your future.

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