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5 Transcendental Cheat Codes on Time Manipulation for People Obsessed With Productivity

Avoid racing against time: it's unbeatable.

Ricky Lanusse
9 min readMay 16, 2023
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

It is because of time that you grow: from toddler to kid to adolescent to adult to elder to dead.

And you feel an urgency to do stuff because, even if you don’t say it often (or never), you and everybody else around you are constantly mutating towards your final stage of soil fertilizer.

And THAT is one worrying thing.

But is doing and turning into a productivity machine the answer?

Or does doing actually speed up time?

Wouldn’t it be better just to be?

Time does go at different speeds.

Even from your feet to your face.

And there is a magic tool that bends and lengthens time:

Being aware.

It sounds easy, but how much of your life are you actually living in the present?

And how much are you either enthusiastic or agonizing about the future or longing or weeping about the past?

So instead of being aware of everything that surrounds you, you decide to translate this unconscious worry about time in a goal-achieving race against…

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Ricky Lanusse
Ricky Lanusse

Written by Ricky Lanusse

Patagonian skipping stones professional. Antarctic sapiens 🇦🇶 on https://rickylanusse.substack.com/

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