Worst enemy + Best friend
Time! No I am not talking about Pink Floyd, not even the magazine, or the scene from “back to the future” when Doc enters the scene for the first time. I am talking about the dimension, TIME!
Time is a very interesting dimension. I could talk about time in the physics domain for a long time, but I am interested in talking about Time in a business domain today. Think about it what can you do when some one says “You are too young.”, you can’t go get a couple years, you can’t buy it, its not training that you read some and put on those years, or eat some to bulk up, likewise what if some one says “You are too old.”? Obviously it can’t be shed off, its not weight or hair.
So what do people really intend to say when they comment on time, either the lack of it or the excess? In my guess the true implication is on experience, that hard teacher that gives you the test first and then the lesson. The flip side is when they doubt your energy, capacity and may even capability. In my opinion it is obviously a flawed concept, especially since the oldest person is not the wisest and the youngest one is not the most energetic, but again there is little value in arguing, I believe we need to pick our battles.
It’s a tough argument, unlike training, weight, space, time is not physical. Although HG Wells in his timeless classic introduced us to the time machine and so did Verne Jules, established scenarios where the dimension and principles challenged. To date any travels in this dimension of time has been science fiction, you never know considering the fact that Mr. Wells articulated the science of genetics and transplants very elegantly in to Dr. Moreau’s
Who is to say in the future we will not be able to go ahead in time gain experience and get back to deliver on the energy promise? Given our obsession with perpetual youth and anti-aging.
