One Day Can Last For Ever: Work & Life

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Scientifically and based on our personal experience you may agree that we may have implicitly and explicitly observed that time is not going in one straight line. It bends all the time with space, and is not always moving forward. Consider Einstein's general theory of relativity, which proves it is theoretically possible for bending of space and time. . Intuitively, what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning (Werner Heisenberg). More recently, it has been proposed that time moves as it does because humans are biologically, neurologically, philosophically hardwired to experience time only as moving forward and in a straight line. It's like a macro-scale version of Schrödinger's cat. Einstein showed that time was relative to the observer but today it has been argued that the observer actually creates  time itself. In other words, it can go in any direction whatsoever. 

1929, Professor Einstein, “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”

Steve Job said "The only way to do great work is to love what you do". When you love what you are working on, you are focused on building, innovating and creating something worthwhile instead of keeping track of how much time has passed. Great work takes time. 

During March-September 1929, there has been multiple accounts in news media where Einstein has been paraphrased on his words to his secretary when she was inundated by interviewers, who wanted to know what relativity meant, to answer:

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it’s only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.”

In this respect, a day can be like living your whole life. It can last forever. 

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