A Book about Life’s Scarcest Commodity By Klein Stefan
Reflections and Random Thoughts
When does now end?
“How long does the present last?”
I started this book in February 2024 and finished it in December 2024. I’m not sure it lives up to its name, but it was worth reading. It seems like it was mainly about the relativity of time when it goes slow and when it goes fast. He also talked about time and memory.
While reading it, I paid more attention to how I was spending my time; it got harder to enjoy playing my game – I tried considering what value the hour I had just lived had to me. What did I remember of it?
Insights
Key Take-Aways
As I read this book, I find myself paying more attention to how I spend my time – considering more seriously if I’m willing to give my life to the activity I’m engaged in.
Everyone says that time is money, but it isn’t.
Recollections vs Memory
According to this book, children acquire their first conscious recollections at about 18 months.
A recollection is not the same as a memory; I looked this up because I thought they were the same and replaced the word recollection in the sentence above with memory, rendering it inaccurate.
Recollection is the active process of retrieving specific memories, while memory is the system or ability to remember something, which begins to develop in humans at birth. A baby can recognize its mother’s face within 2 hours.
Something Actionable
This is a stop doing. Stop spending so much time playing my phone game.
Especially during times, I could be doing something I can see later.
What Everyone Else Thinks
This book only has 82 reviews on Amazon, 3% 1 star and 62% 5 star. On Good Reads, it has 23 ratings, an average of 4.17, and only three reviews.
Looking at the 1-star review on Amazon, I see that it’s a complaint about formatting with no discussion of content.
