Philip Zimbardo explains how our individual perspectives of time affect our lives. He discusses how time shapes us and how we act in the world, influencing our work, health and relationships. According to Zimbardo, time is a formative influence that affects our individual perspectives.
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The Secret Powers of Time - Summary and Conversation Lesson
1. The Secret Powers of Time*
Philip Zimbardo
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg&feature=related
2. Summary
This movie is about time and the formative
influences on our lives. Philip Zimbardo
explains how our individual perspectives of
time affect our work, health and
relationships with people. Time shapes us
and how we act in the world.
3. Who is Philip Zimbardo?
*He was born on 23 of March in 1933
*American psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University
*in 1971 he executed Stanford Prison Experiment-SPE
*author a lot o books for example Psychology and life and
Shyness: What it is, What to do about it
*Clinic founder of shyness in Paolo Alot
*since 2002 - American Psychological Association
4. comprehension questions/
vocabulary
*Who is chosen by God, according to the
author?
*Why do young men spend so much time
playing video games?
*Social psychologist Robert Levine wrote a
book about the pace of life. Explain.
5. Discussion
*Why is the future important and why should you
put your trust in the future?
*What does it means: ,,life begins after the
death of the mortal body ?
6. *Which polical movement is in Italy and what
is it doing? Its good or bad?
*How is your pace of life/people around you?
7. *Why the children in America drop out of
school? Whats the problem?
*Teenager know about the future consequences
(sex, pregnancy etc) so why they dont feed back
to change behaviour?
8. *What would you do if a week had 8
days?
*How did family behaviour look 20 years
ago and how is now? What are you
thinking about?
*Do you believe that a lot of things we
can disentangle using time perspective?