How I see time: Different than you do. Of course. Everyone has different views based on different eyes and different interpretations of the seen and the then added thoughts based on different knowledge, one's personal experiences, own thinking and individual thoughts. So no two different persons see and think the completely same as their eyes, perspectives, brains and thinking are different. This related to everything. So also related to time or what one may think of time.
This text is not about my personal philosophical thoughts even though the beginning would give a nice long text on individual interpretations of the world and the term "time" and concepts that are time related.
But I want to write something different: I think long-term.
I think less on short-term. My time horizon is longer. Some things that I see and think of are very long long-term. This is also based on my interest in history and human history related thoughts. The more I have reflected history and human history the more I got into thinking a very long long-term view. Also my interest in old economics related thoughts has changed my view on time. I see the years of business cycles. I see economical developments over decades and lots of developments in a longer historical context. Developments that seem to be new are often similar to ones that had already been there. My interests in architectural history and art history also had influences on my perspective of time and its relation to the present "time".
I don't really care much about daily mass media news. As mentioned in another post I don't really read newspapers much.
I like to spend time with good books. Deep time. I like to spend time with persons I know well and with good communication. I like to spend time with people that add value and recognize the value of time.
I also like to add value to the time of people I work with and work for.
This is why I am very exclusive: My time is limited. This is a realistic view of the world: Everyone's time is limited. No one really has time for everyting and everyone and this all the time. You also have to sleep and you also want to spend time with the ones that are closer to you. You yourself are closest to yourself. You also need time for your body and yourself. Same with me. So being exclusive is nothing bad. I will write an article that has thoughts based on economics that discusses why everyone is exclusive based on individual choices, interpretation of value and related decisions. I will also refer to economists that I like.
I often don't want to be the fastest.
Reality: I don't care much about lots of fast things.
It is an achievement that some are the fastest in 100 meters run or at swimming a track. In downhill skiing of a mountain's slope. Yes.
But one has not to be the fastest in everything and for everyone.
Do you want to be the fastest eater? The one that drinks fastest? (...) The fastest lover?
- Me not.
It is often an advantage in lots of situations to take some time and to slow down.
I often like it slow.
Slowness is more intense.
I like Oscar Niemeyer's take on architecture. He had projects in high age - He was over 90 and still had his projects. Nice. In my point of view: Even great. Same with Giorgio Armani in his 80s that still does his job well. Great. He has built a great company and great brand. Over decades. Annotation: I mentioned the two as they are well known in each of their areas as example, but I did not mention them in a way of comparison. I don't like to compare different persons. Everyone is somehow different.
That's how I also see my work: I have not a focus on "just the present" and I don't want to finish my work life at a certain age (like in my mid 60s. Annotation: I have decades in front of me to get to my 60s). I understand that lots of other people want to do so. Maybe they see their job not related to their passions. But this is not my lifestyle and my style of work interpretation. Doing so would not value my time and it would also not value my skills and my knowledge.
I am critical about quality. But I can say: Lots of my done work is already great. I have achieved greatness in lots of works - Even though I can add lots of further great works to my portfolio. What I want to tell: Even though I like to build and create: I don't have to achieve something.
I like to create.
I like to build.
That is my passion: To think. To design. To create. To build.
I don't "just manage the existing"
- Even though management of the already existing is also important.
I design new things.
I create new things.
I build new things.
I like history. I like old things. I like tradition and its values. I like preservation (like preservation of cultural heritage. You see - logged in - on Twitter that I "like" lots of old things: Old photographs, artworks of artists that are not contemporary, classical and romantic music, well done pictures of classical actors and more).
Yes. I like all of the mentioned "old" and even more of it.
Lots of "old" things are great. Lots of it has a great quality.
But I also like to create new things.
I don't create for being in the news - Like being in daily newspapers.
I won't care much about it.
Why "news" is relative:
The news of one place (or country) is often different to the one of another.
There are lots of places in the world.
I am Europe based, but I see myself also as a cosmopolitan and a citizen of the world. This also makes "news" place related relative.
It also seems: Most people are not much interested in "news" of other places.
I often reflect the world. I often think global.
The news of the last day is often not "new(s)" anymore. At the end of the day or after a day the typical paper based newspaper finds its way into the dustbins of lots of people. Typical newspaper news lead to short-term thinking as it itself has a shortest term lifespan. What had been written or said or read in the "news" the last day is often relative the next one.
"News" via newspapers seen online often means scrolling and to forget the parts one is not interested in fast. When done often: That rewires - somehow same as often done Social Media scrolling - the brain in a bad way.
I like the opposite: I like to remember.
So I like to read good books.
I like to learn and remember.
I am too much into Stoic thinking and the thoughts of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations that I like very much. I don't care much about fame. I don't strive for being popular. Also mentioned that I differentiate "being popular", "being known" (for something) and "being famous". In German language berühmt sein means to have achieved Ruhm: This means that one often has done something extraordinary or even great. But being popular - bekannt sein - is something different. It is easy to be popular if one wants to be known. One that screams loud on a public place is easily known by lots of people.
But I don't want to do so.
I don't buy into lots of things that are loud. So I also see lots of Social Media quite relative. I don't strive for lots of "Likes" - Especially not by persons that don't really know me. I don't care much about Social Media "Likes". My time horizon is not based on a singular posting and how many "Likes" it gets. Of course, one can see on Social Media daily: Some body parts easily get "Likes" - One reason: Body parts are easy to understand. So it is no wonder that the mass of people puts lots of "Likes" to body parts. Everything that is easy to understand has huge potential to get lots of "Likes". Fast. Of course.
Reality: Lots of great content is known just by a few people. Why? - Because not everyone sees the same. Lots of people walk daily on public squares. But when asked: Lots of them could not describe the sculptures of a fountain that is in the middle of the place in detail or name the meaning of the text that is written on its base
- Besides walking daily close to it.
One needs time to see. So not everyone sees. Lots of people that are popular among the masses fit to a mass. But the mass is something undefined. Individuals set actions.
One has to see much, hear much, listen much, (...), take lots of time and learn much to refine. Not everyone wants to do so. It needs time to get well educated. Same related to good style or taste. It is like in great music. Really great music is played - but also often heard - by a few. Same with design, art, literature and more.
I have not a focus on the mass of people - Even though I also publish small parts of content - some even made easy to consume - and impressions to see by those that want to see. But I am not for everyone. I don't want to be otherwise. But let's keep it real: No one is. It is good that people have different interests and not everyone does and likes the same. Even the football stars with millions of followers on Instagram are not the ones for everyone as not everyone likes football, the sport for the masses of people per se.
Art and design related: For me some good clients and buyers that understand and value my work are worth more than a mass with individuals that don't really take time. This is nothing special. Lots of professions have it this way: Think of architects to - even closer to lots of monthly life - hairdressers that all have individual clients and that all don't make a "one fits all approach", but individual and personalized services. Lots of professions are based on personalized services.
Being popular is also often something place related: The popular ones in country X often are not known in country Y. That also makes being popular relative.
I like to create things that last.
Lots of Social Media postings don't really last.
Being in favor of a creation of things that last means that I am not much for fast fashion, not really for fast food etc and also don't really buy into it. When I was younger, I also did fast fashion related. A bit. But over time my time horizon changed.
I am more reflective. I am more critical. I see lots of things in a different time span.
I see lots of things and its effects long-term.
I am not one of those that want to consume fast.
I especially don't want to consume fast the things others already have.
I like to create.
I like to build.
Myself.
That is my passion: To create.
I like lots of "old" things as they have often been built over a long(er) time period
and in an other way of thinking:
Thinking for the long-term,
creating for the long-term,
preserving and conserving for long time.
I like lots of very "old" things.
I like lots of (personal habit related) old values.
Preserving nature, cultural history,
history of civilization and life itself
is for the long-term.
I see my work long-term,
very long long-term.
I see lots of things long-term,
very long long-term.
I don't hurry.
I build for the long-term
and lots of what I do is for the very long long-term.
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