You’re framing this in terms of yourself, but the most important area I’d say appears to be omitted. Learning about problems not involving you can teach you a lot about what you should do. The knowledge of others vastly exceeds your own. I guess this might be past since you wouldn’t hear about it until it happened usually. Future and present planning is best determined by past analysis, but the reverse is not true. You cannot learn much about the past from the present or the future. The present also will not teach you much about the future, but the future will help you with the present. This to me presents a hierarchy of past>future>present.
I didn’t read this as being framed on himself just because his examples were using him as a running example.
I think the classification as such makes sense and can be helpful to even consider a more balanced use of time (whether on an individual scale or for deliberations of/for groups).
Yes, perhaps I should be more specific. This is literally about the self.
I suppose there is a form of philosophising or theorising; but that would either be useless or future oriented. (generating a future hypothetical scenario to consider OR imagining things for no purpose other than fun)
I did try to use the word “history” in the past section to include learning from others’ mistakes. But I guess it was not clear.
Thank you for the hierarchy, I will consider this method of classification and others modelled on it for the future. Do you have any idea of time balance for each area? (how much > is one than the other?)
You’re framing this in terms of yourself, but the most important area I’d say appears to be omitted. Learning about problems not involving you can teach you a lot about what you should do. The knowledge of others vastly exceeds your own. I guess this might be past since you wouldn’t hear about it until it happened usually. Future and present planning is best determined by past analysis, but the reverse is not true. You cannot learn much about the past from the present or the future. The present also will not teach you much about the future, but the future will help you with the present. This to me presents a hierarchy of past>future>present.
I didn’t read this as being framed on himself just because his examples were using him as a running example.
I think the classification as such makes sense and can be helpful to even consider a more balanced use of time (whether on an individual scale or for deliberations of/for groups).
Yes, perhaps I should be more specific. This is literally about the self.
I suppose there is a form of philosophising or theorising; but that would either be useless or future oriented. (generating a future hypothetical scenario to consider OR imagining things for no purpose other than fun)
I did try to use the word “history” in the past section to include learning from others’ mistakes. But I guess it was not clear.
Thank you for the hierarchy, I will consider this method of classification and others modelled on it for the future. Do you have any idea of time balance for each area? (how much > is one than the other?)