Individual
- fatigue
- burnout
- time anxiety
An inquiry into time
Why do so many people feel they never have enough time?
That question has followed me for more than a decade.
Dale WhelehanFounder, House of Time
Assistant Professor in Systems PsychologyTrinity College Dublin
PhD in Behavioural ScienceResearching how time shapes the way we think, work and live.
The recurring pattern
The pressures we experience personally are rarely personal alone. Time is shaped between people, inside organisations, through public decisions and across the living world.
Time was hiding inside problems given other names.
Interpersonal
- misaligned rhythms
- unequal care
- waiting
Organisational
- overload
- fragmented work
- cultures of urgency
Societal
- short-termism
- deadline politics
- unequal access to time
Planetary
- 24/7 extraction
- seasonal disruption
- ecological overshoot
One experiment
What happens when we give time back?
At 4 Day Week Global, I helped lead a worldwide movement to rethink working time.
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Tue
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Organisations changed their schedules.
People recovered parts of their lives.
The practical question opened onto something larger.
How do we think about
time itself?
The emerging framework
Temporal Intelligence
The capacity to understand, navigate and intentionally shape time across our lives, relationships and systems.
Self
AwarenessRegulationSovereigntyStewardshipSystem
CoordinationArchitectureGovernanceFour capacities of the self. Three capacities of the systems we live within.
A framework can name the problem.
A movement can change a practice.
But where could we go
to experience time differently?
That place did not exist.
So I began building it.