THE ARCTIC ISLAND THAT’S RECLAIMING TIME
- sciart0
- Dec 21, 2025
- 1 min read
Excerpt: "Time-management styles do seem to influence how people experience the world. In Avnet and Sellier’s studies, at least, clock-timers were more likely to believe that events are steered by fate, not by intention. They are also worse at distinguishing between events that are causally linked and events that are unrelated.
Those who follow event time are more likely to say that what happens on a daily basis is a result of their own actions. In one of their experiments, Avnet and Sellier split participants into two types of hot-yoga classes: one in which instructors advised people in a clock-free room to move through poses without attention to how long each was held, and one in which a teacher noted how much time should be spent in each pose. In the clock-time class, students skipped and gave up on more poses than in the event-time class—and were more likely to consider the instructor responsible for these failures.
Students had less positive experiences in the clock-time class."