10 Habits of Highly Effective Students

Ever find yourself up late at night expending more energy trying to keep your eyelids open than you are studying? If so, it's time for a change. Successful students typically space their work out over shorter periods of time and rarely try to cram all of their studying into just one or two sessions. If you want to become a successful student then you need to learn to be consistent in your studies and to have regular, yet shorter, study periods.

1. Don't attempt to cram all your studying into one session

Successful students schedule specific times throughout the week when they are going to study -- and then they stick with their schedule. Students who study sporadically and whimsically typically do not perform as well as students who have a set study schedule. Even if you're all caught up with your studies, creating a weekly routine, where you set aside a period of time a few days a week, to review your courses will ensure you develop habits that will enable you to succeed in your education long term.

2. Plan when you're going to study

Not only is it important that you plan when you're going to study, it's important you create a consistent, daily study routine. When you study at the same time each day and each week, you're studying will become a regular part of your life. You'll be mentally and emotionally more prepared for each study session and each study session will become more productive. If you have to change your schedule from time to time due to unexpected events, that's okay, but get back on your routine as soon as the event has passed.

3. Study at the same time

Simply studying without direction is not effective. You need to know exactly what you need to accomplish during each study session. Before you start studying, set a study session goal that supports your overall academic goal (i.e. memorize 30 vocabulary words in order to ace the vocabulary section on an upcoming Spanish test.)

4. Each study time should have a specific goal

It's very easy, and common, to put off your study session because of lack of interest in the subject, because you have other things you need to get done, or just because the assignment is hard. Successful students DO NOT procrastinate studying. If you procrastinate your study session, your studying will become much less effective and you may not get everything accomplished that you need to. Procrastination also leads to rushing, and rushing is the number one cause of errors

5. Never procrastinate your planned study session

As your most difficult assignment or subject will require the most effort and mental energy, you should start with it first. Once you've completed the most difficult work, it will be much easier to complete the rest of your work. Believe it or not, starting with the most difficult subject will greatly improve the effectiveness of your study sessions, and your academic performance.

6. Start with the most difficult subject first

Obviously, before you can review your notes you must first have notes to review. Always make sure to take good notes in class. Before you start each study session, and before you start a particular assignment, review your notes thoroughly to make sure you know how to complete the assignment correctly. Reviewing your notes before each study session will help you remember important subject matter learned during the day, and make sure your studying is targeted and effective.

7. Always review your notes before starting an assignment

Everyone gets distracted by something. Maybe it's the TV. Or maybe it's your family. Or maybe it's just too quiet. Some people actually study better with a little background noise. When you're distracted while studying you (1) lose your train of thought and (2) are unable to focus -- both of which will lead to very ineffective studying. Before you start studying, find a place where you won't be disturbed or distracted. For some people this is a quiet cubicle in the recesses of the library. For others it is in a common area where there is a little background noise.

8. Make sure you're not distracted while you're studying

Ever heard the phrase "two heads are better than one?" Well this can be especially true when it comes to studying. Working in groups enables you to (1) get help from others when you're struggling to understand a concept, (2) complete assignments more quickly, and (3) teach others, whereby helping both the other students and yourself to internalize the subject matter. However, study groups can become very ineffective if they're not structured and if group members come unprepared. Effective students use study groups effectively.

9. Use study groups effectively

Successful students review what they've learned during the week over the weekend. This way they're well prepared to continue learning new concepts that build upon previous coursework and knowledge acquired the previous week. We're confident that if you'll develop the habits outlined above that you'll see a major improvement in your academic success.

10. Review your notes, schoolwork and other class materials over

Discover the study habits that can help you become a successful student. There are 10 study habits that most successful students have in common.

Study Habits of Highly Effective Students

One thing at a time: When you walk, just walk, and appreciate each step. When you do something online, do one thing at a time, as fully as you can. This is such a simple approach but we forget it so often.

One thing at a time: 

In between meetings and tasks, take a breath. Let yourself have some space, some downtime. Even if it’s just a few minutes, savor this delicious space.

Put space between things

Clean as you go: Put away your clothes when you take them off. Wash your dishes after you eat or cook. Wipe the counter. Tidy up after yourself. This can apply to everything — reply to that email, clean up your downloads folder, don’t have a million tabs open all the time. Simple thing, but really underappreciated by most people. Not letting things pile up is such a wonderful way to live life on easy mode.

Clean as you go: 

Do less: You don’t need to do less in order to live life on easy mode. But it can be really nice! Reduce how much you’re trying to get done during the day. This can take some time to transition towards, including renegotiating commitments with people or training people to do things for themselves..

Do less: 

I don’t mean all the time. But every 30-45 minutes, get up and move. Stretch, do a few yoga poses, walk outside for a few minutes, do some bodyweight exercises. Once a day, do more than that: go for a longer walk, go on a bike ride, do a workout, play a sport, do a yoga routine or bodyweight exercises. Rest some days if you’re sore or tired, of course. This kind of movement throughout the day makes your body feel vibrantly healthy and at ease in the long run.

Move often:

A lot of time, we can get stopped by overwhelm. It’s natural to feel overwhelmed when we’re face with a lot of tasks/decisions. Life on easy mode means just picking one thing off the pile and focusing on that. Then the next thing off the pile. Take a breath, and focus on one thing.

When you’re overwhelmed, take small steps:

We overcomplicate things. What’s the simplest way you can approach the things you have in front of you? How can you make decisions with ease, instead of overthinking it? Be straightforward in your communication — say what you want. Don’t add extra meaning to things, extra layers of suffering. Live simply in every interaction and task.

Do things as simply as possible:

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You don’t have to do anything different to live life on this easy mode. That said, here are some things I’ve found to make life so much easier — there might be a lot here, but think of these as ideas you might try one at a time:

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<ul><li>Transfer money to your savings account every time you receive a paycheck</li><li>Choose all your outfits for your week on Sunday and hang them in the closet in order</li><li>Subscribe to a weekly fresh delivery of organic vegetables and fruits to your home</li><li>Standardize the typical daily meals you like the most, saving time in cooking and grocery shopping</li><li>Prepare your sports bag every night and put it in your car. If you prefer running the morning, leave your running shoes near the bed</li><li>Automate all electronic gadgets to go into sleep mode at a certain hour</li></ul>

Automate Decisions

Switching between tasks can have damaging costs to our work and productivity.Develop the habit of single-tasking by forcing your brain to concentrate on one task and one task only. Put your phone away, close all the browser windows and apps that you don’t need. Immerse yourself in this task. Only move to the next one when you’re done.

Single Task

“Time management is not a peripheral activity or skill. It is the core skill upon which everything else in life depends.”

Productivity is directly related to your energy level.Find your most productive hours — the time of your peak energy — and schedule Deep Work for those periods. Do low-value and low-energy tasks (also known as shallow work), such as responding to emails or unimportant meetings, in between those hours.

Work Around Your Energy Levels

Before going to bed, spend 5 minutes writing your to-do list for the next day. These tasks should help you move towards your professional and personal goals.You’ll be better prepared mentally for the challenges ahead before waking up and there won’t be any room for procrastination in the morning. As a result, you’ll work faster and smoother than ever before.

Plan Your Day the Night Before

A golden time management technique: Find your most important task (MIT) for the day and tackle it first. Your MIT should be the one thing that creates the most impact on your work. Getting it done will give you the momentum and sense of accomplishment early in the day. That’s how big life goals are achieved: small continuous efforts, day after day.

Start the Day with Critical Work

<ol><li>Write down all your tasks.</li><li>Identify what’s urgent and what’s important. After each task, mark them with “U” for Urgent and “I” for Important. </li><li>Assess value: look at your “I” tasks and identify the high-value drivers of your work. You want to find which tasks have priority over others and how many people are impacted by your work</li><li>Estimate time to complete each task. Order them from most effort to least effort.</li></ol>

Prioritize Tasks

<ul><li>Find to the right person: he should have all the necessary skills and is capable of doing the job</li><li>Provide clear instructions: write down the tasks in a step-by-step manual be as specific as possible</li><li>Define success: be specific about what the expected outcome is and the deadline to have the task completed</li><li>Clarity: have the tasks explained back to you and offer clarification when something is unclear, rewriting the specifications if needed</li></ul>

Delegate or Outsource Tasks

Putting some of your daily tasks on autopilot is key to working smarter.<ul><li>Create canned responses for emails you keep writing over and over again</li><li>Set reminders in your Calendar so you never forget anything</li><li>Proofread your writing automatically</li><li>Schedule and automate your social media posts in advance</li><li>Automatically fill online forms,  saving all your passwords in one place</li><li>Create spreadsheet templates for reports you have to do weekly/monthly.</li></ul>

Automate Repetitive Tasks

Set deadlines even when you don’t need to. Schedule less time to complete tasks and force your brain to focus.Parkinson’s law states: “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”. So, if you reduce the time you have to complete a task, you force your brain to focus and complete it.

Set Time Constraints

<ul><li>Turn off all notifications on your phone, computer, and tablet</li><li>Leave your phone in odd places that prevent you from immediately finding it</li><li>Work with headphones as people are less likely to approach you.</li><li>If you find interesting articles, save them  to read later, such as during the commute</li><li>Turn off your Wi-Fi when your tasks don’t require internet connectivity</li><li>Don’t browse social media at work at all. </li><li>Use “Do Not Disturb” functions on chat systems.</li><li>If you have an office, shut the door.</li></ul>

Eliminate Distractions

Invest your focus on big decisions and make quick calls on medium and small decisions.Small decisions impact you for a day, such as what to wear or where to eat. Medium impact your life for a year, such as deciding to go back to school or rent a different room. In the long term though, very few decisions matter. Those are the big decisions: they are worthy of serious pondering, discussion, investigation, investment, and decision making.

Make Quick Decisions on Things That Don’t Matter

Track your time to have real data on your work and uncover insights on how you can improve your productivity.After a couple of weeks, you’ll start noticing patterns and knowing where and how your time is leaking. By being aware of how exactly you are using your time, you can devise a plan to attack your leaks and how to get rid of them.

Track Your Time

<ol><li>If it can be done in two minutes, just do it. Don’t add it to your to-do list, put it aside for later, or delegate to someone else. Just do it.</li><li>If it takes more than two minutes, start it. Once you start acting on small tasks, you can keep the ball rolling. Simply working on it for two minutes will help you break the first barrier of procrastination.</li></ol>

The 2-Minute Rule

Say “no” by default to anything that doesn’t contribute to your top 5 career goals.Your time is a limited resource and you can’t let people set your agenda in life.

Say No More Often Than Yes

<ul><li>Learn a new skill, either for your professional or personal life</li><li>Read books or articles you saved to for later</li><li>Organize your computer, folders, calendar or work</li><li>Plan your week, tomorrow, or the rest of your day</li><li>Listen to a podcast</li><li>Learn a language</li><li>Take a walk and think and let your mind wander</li><li>Take a productive pause to clear your mind.</li></ul>

Use “Gap Time” Effectively:

The 80 20 rule states that “80% of the output or results will come from 20% of the input or action”. In other words, the little things are the ones that account for the majority of the results.Use the 80/20 rule in your life and work to prioritize the input that brings the majority of the output.

80/20 Your Time

Break down big tasks into smaller ones to avoid procrastinating and help you stay on track to achieve your final goal.Never put a huge project down as just one to-do on your list. Instead, put bite-sized to-dos that you can do one at a time. Take it step by step.

Break Down Big Tasks

Schedule tasks, working from your calendar instead of the to-do list. When an event is consistently scheduled on your calendar, it’s much more likely to transform into an unconscious habitUsing your calendar forces you to rethink your work from tasks to time units. That small change increases the likelihood of getting things done.

Work From the Calendar

<ul><li>Do not schedule more time than needed. Most of the times 20 minutes is the sweet spot.</li><li>Keep the number of participants small.</li><li>Send everyone an agenda and main points the day before</li><li>Keep conversation on-track by reminding the participants of the topic.</li><li>Group your meetings back-to-back to have a clear start and end point for each one</li></ul>

Take Fewer  Meetings

Aiming for perfection is a surefire way to delay or never complete a project. Choose to chase “good enough” instead.It’s easy to be caught up in an endless cycle of trying to do everything perfectly. But being a perfectionism can delay your work and make you miss important deadlines

Let Go Of Perfectionism

Create a To-Don’t list with all the habits you want to remove from your life. For example:<ul><li>Do not email first thing in the morning or last thing at night</li><li>No morning meetings</li><li>Don’t say yes unless you’re 100% certain you can deliver</li><li>Don’t drink coffee in the afternoon</li><li>Do not agree to meetings or calls with no clear agenda or end time</li></ul>

Have a To-Don’t List

The main idea behind this time management technique is to collect up a group of similar activities and do them all in one swoop. You can work efficiently on multiple tasks without losing your flow if the activities require similar mindsets. Batching forces your brain to be focused on one type of task at a time.

Batch Similar Tasks

Schedule breaks throughout your day to help you recharge and take regular vacations throughout the year. Rest is the best medicine for sustainable long-term productivity.

Take Time Off to Recharge

Good time management techniques simplify how you work and help you get things done better and faster. Here are my 23 favorite time management techniques. They are a set of principles, rules, and skills that allow you to put your focus on the things that matter and help you be more productive.

Time Management

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“Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.”

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”

“Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you see can inspire you.”

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

“If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.”

“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”

“You cannot save people, you can just love them.”

“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”

“There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.”

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

“You will succeed because most people are lazy.”

“Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.”

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

“Numbing the pain for a while will only make it worse when you finally feel it.” — Albus Dumbledore

“Do it with passion, or not at all.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

“The grass is greener where you water it.” — Neil Barringham

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

“Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.”

“Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.”

“I never dream of success. I worked for it.”

“Avoiding failure is to avoid progress.”

If you have ever heard the expression "doesn't meet a stranger," you likely know that the phrase describes someone who is unconditionally friendly and able to converse with anyone. Some people have this trait, and others wish they did.

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The Japanese have a secret that embodies the idea of happiness in living, and it is called Ikigai.Essentially, Ikigai, loosely translated to life value, or life worth, is a concept of living that the Japanese culture imbibes for decades.

Life Value

Ikigai is illustrated in four overlapping circles, as in a Venn Diagram which talks about a synthesis of:
<ul>
<li>What you love to do.</li>
<li>What you are good at.</li>
<li>What the world needs.</li>
<li>What you can be paid for.</li>
</ul>

Ikigai: The Reason for Being

According to psychiatrist Mieko Kamiya, the concept of Ikigai is similar to happiness, but with a difference.Ikigai looks at the larger picture of life, allowing you to be ok with a miserable situation, as the grand vision of life, and the future is still positive.

Ikigai and Happiness

The concept of Ikigai aligns with everyday life, as opposed to a lifetime. It makes us appreciate our daily life, celebrating it, and experiencing the small joys of living.Ikigai is the reason you wake up in the morning for, that thing you live for, daily.

Everyday Life and a Lifetime

Japanese have a large number of senior citizens, including many centenarians, with the average lifetime being 87 years for women and 81 years for men.Ikigai has been a major reason for the long life of the Japanese, along with special kinds of diets.

Ikigai and Longevity

Make three small lists:<ul><li>Your values</li><li>Things you like to do</li><li>Things you are good at</li></ul>The cross-section or overlap of these three lists, is your Ikigai, something you should do for the rest of your life.

Make Your Ikigai

Ikigai is not a theoretical concept to be understood and left aside, and can only work in daily action and constant practice.Your work should make a difference in people's lives, and not necessarily would be just working hard.

Purpose of Action

For Japanese workers in big cities, a typical work day begins with a state called sushi-zum e, a term which likens commuters squeezed into a crowded train car to tightly packed grains of rice in sushi. The stress doesn't stop there.

Ikigai: A Japanese concept to improve work and life

Newest

This probably sounds quaint, but once upon a time, tech startups were called “startups.” Occasionally, venture capitalists called them “portfolio companies,” or customers called them “tech companies,” but “startup” was the main term.In 2013, though, startups began their Animorphs journey.

What animal is your Startup?

Zebra businesses have roots in their leaders’ personal experiences and visions.  Zebras fuse profit and purpose, shy away from venture funding and collaborate. Zebra founders’ connection to their companies means they strive for capital efficiency and tend to avoid trading equity for venture funding.Examples: Baremetrics, Zapier

THE ZEBRA

Camels can survive in the “desert” of volatile, cash-strapped markets.Camels charge for the value they create from the get-go. Survival, rather than fast growth, is the priority.Examples: Qualtrics, GrubHub, Zoom

The Camel

A gazelle is a company that had revenue of at least $1 million and then doubled its revenue in four years. Its growing by 20 per cent each year.It was what unicorns used to be called before the term unicorn was coined.Examples: Facebook, Apple, and Amazon would all have been initially seen as gazelles.

THE GAZELLE

Cockroach companies aren’t glamorous, aspirational, or exciting. But they are great at surviving.When you consider that more than 90% of entrepreneurial businesses tend to fail, aspiring to cockroach survival mode isn’t too bad. They’re the mainstay of the economy.Cockroaches ideally aim for profitability right from the start and can slow down their pace if adversity hits. Examples: GitHub, Facebook and Google were once cockroach startups and became unicorns only after building a solid business, cockroach style.

Cockroach

Rhino startups aim to be both big and profitable. Rhinos as companies that have a valuation of $1bn on a price-to-earnings multiple, not on a revenue multiple. Rhinos are far rarer than unicorns.Examples: Apple, Facebook, Google

Rhino

Pigs are startups that take advantage of the fact that it has become relatively cheap and easy to make a web product. You can get the development work done at a modest price and even raise some initial capital.Pigs aren’t building the company for long-term world domination—they’re aiming to sell it to a big corporate or a competitor at the right moment.Apple and Google regularly shop for tasty pork among companies like this.Examples: Snapchat buying Looksery. Facebook buying Masquerade

A bear is a solitary, awkward creature that values its independence and therefore doesn’t want to take VC money. The founders of these companies choose the bootstrapping route, which makes life harder for them. But if it pays off, they end up rich AND in control of their companies.Examples:Tableau Software, Go-Pro, Mail chimp

Phoenixes are companies that last more than a hundred years because they rise, fall, and then rise again. Companies that have managed to reinvent themselves as a third or fourth-generation youngster takes the helm.Examples: Fiat, Otto Bock, GM

Phoenix

"Unicorn" is the term used in the venture capital industry to describe a startup company with a valuation of over $ 1 billion.Example: CRED, Groww

Unicorn

White elephant startups symbolise huge projects without a deeper economic meaning. A real example is a construction project that happens only for a major event such as sports events.

The White Elephant

These ideas have been compiled to the simplest of understanding with relevant images and Examples of Companies that fit into the respective category of Animal Startup.

What Animal is your Startup?

What are the memories of men? How many can they be? Where are they? Who can tell them? What can they tell? Why is it worth talking about? How can they be found out? Should they be preserved? Where are they hiding? Memories are also called remembrance, they can be stored not only on the paper page, with images and symbols, but also in bits & bytes, on the digital page, which then becomes dynamic. MEDIUM is the ideal place.

Memories

Amelia and I will remember in days the memory of our wedding on August 3, 1972. It was a Thursday. Our first fifty years of marriage, celebrated in the Cathedral of Amalfi by Father Alfonso Arpino, my mother’s brother, together with Mons. Riccardo Arpino, concelebrant for the occasion.To make 50 years, half a century, it takes 600 months, 2608.93 weeks, 18.262.5 days, 26.298.000 minutes. This is the space we call time, provided we know what this space is made of.

Amelia and I

The word “time” is undoubtedly one of the most used and mysterious words in all languages. Yet its use does not explain its meaning. The word is referred to in countless contexts. The many possible synonyms make me lose myself in a forest of meanings that take me far away, but I will never be able to return to the decisive station, the one of departure: that Thursday fifty years ago at 18.00. The only thing I remember well is that there was a storm in the morning. Then came the clear.

A Mystery  Word

Saint Augustine wrote in his “Confessions”: “What is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to anyone who asks me, I don’t know   anymore." Enlightening statement.Time exists. How else would we fix our watches? Time organizes our universe both mentally and physically. Do you think it would be our world if things were always the same and there was no time to change them. The question we must rather ask ourselves is whether time is really necessary. Perhaps the questions I ask myself are too difficult and someone will say, with an easy joke, that I am wasting time. Maybe.

Time Exists

If I think about that day, I relive something and see someone still in the present, but I know well that absence dominates. All I have left is the image of a place that is still present, I miss that time that appears to be lost and I delude myself to find it again, remembering.The past and the future are real. Not everyone agrees on this point. Intuitively we can say that “now”, this particular moment, is real, while the past has somehow been “fixed”, plastered, and exists only in books, documents, papers, photos, voices recorded in vanished faces. and disappeared.

The Past & The Future

The future in this image at the exit of the Church, after the ceremony, does not yet exist because it has not yet taken place. But physics teaches us that every moment, in the form of an event in both the past and the future, implies a present moment. A difficult fact to admit in our everyday life, but it is so. Although we may not be aware of what is happening around us at all times, we live in a reality of four dimensions: length, height, depth, in a “continuum” which is time. This wedding photo is both past and future in their reality. Our reality that we are celebrating.

A "Continuum"

Each of us perceives the sense of time in a different way. This is true in both a biological and a physical sense. For Newton, time was universal and common to all. Then Einstein came and explained that instead time for a person is closely related to his moving in space and to the force of gravity. From a psychological and biological point of view, the time measured by atomic clocks is not as important as that measured by our internal rhythms and the amount of memory that accumulates in each of us. Everything happens differently, it depends on who we are, on what happens to us.

Newton & Einstein

As we get older we find that time passes much faster than before. And the writer knows it well. If I ask Amelia, what she remembers of that day, I discover that her memories are not mine, her time is different from mine, as is her past in this shared present that yesterday was the future.We live in the past. Each of our actions before it is received by our brain takes an amount of time to be registered and recognized. To be precise 80 milliseconds. If I touch the tip of my nose or that of my foot, it will take longer to feel the action in my brain.

As We Get Older ...

Our conscious experience takes longer to assemble the sequence of actions. The perception of the moment, of now, can therefore be said to have already passed. Therefore, we live in the past. The distance between the things that happen and their perception is about 80 milliseconds. Science says it with its instruments, but our brains, Amelia’s and Antonio’s, relive the distance of this time-space in a completely different way. A surreal coexistence has made the past become the future and we continue to relive it in the present always in a different way.

We Live In The Past

Our memory is not always reliable. When we remember an event that happened in the past, our brain uses a technique very similar to imagining the future. The process is not like playing a video, but rather like staging a text. If the text is wrong for any reason, you may have a distorted memory similar to the real one. For this reason, visual evidence is very questionable and subjective and not always convergent in a court of law. You will never find two people who see a thing in the same way.

Our Memory

Whenever Amelia tells the events of her journey to get to the Cathedral of Amalfi on time she adds something not said, not remembered, not felt then, but recognized or found today. Is such a thing possible? But, then, does memory deceive us, deceive us or even recreate what never happened?Consciousness depends on knowing how to manipulate time. Many cognitive abilities are important for consciousness and are not yet well known to us. It is clear, however, that the ability to manipulate time and its possibilities is a crucial aspect of the problem.

Does Memory Deceive Us?

Land animals, unlike those of water, manage to possess a very broad visual trend in order to have enough time to choose from a range of actions and decide for the best. Consciousness would not be possible without the ability to imagine another time. But how many humans know they have a conscience? Did Amelia and I know that we would have to find the way and the way to build a new time for us, in a space as new and mysterious as it is unexplored and dangerous? The space of these fifty years is an almost metaphysical testimony.

A Metaphysical Testimony

The clutter increases as time passes. The difference between the past and the future, memory, aging, randomness and free will, rests on the fact that the universe is constantly evolving from order to disorder. Entropy is constantly increasing in the opinion of physicists. There are many ways of being disordered, the condition of which provides for a high entropy, compared to the order which has a low entropy. The increase in the latter, therefore, is completely natural. But to understand the low entropy of past times, we need to go back to the Big Bang.

Back To The Big Bang

Scientists have not yet been able to give an answer to why entropy was low at that time and how this increase affects memory and its randomness. Fifty years later, after our Big Bang, I would not be able to assess whether the entropy of our coexistence has been elevated or reduced, whether we have proceeded from order to disorder or vice versa.Complexity comes and goes. Unlike those who consider themselves creationists, most people have no problem evaluating the difference between “order” and “disorder”, that is, between low and high entropy.

Complexity

This entropy increases but the complexity is ephemeral, volatile, increases and decreases intricately, not without surprise. The work done by complex structures is to increase entropy as in the case of the origin of life. But we are far from understanding this truly unique phenomenon. I can say one thing certain in any case, and that is this half century of life lived in common has shown that experiencing complexity is the great challenge of those who decide to choose marriage and live in a condition of “order” imposed by a law, not only of nature, but also of law.

An Experience 

Aging can be reversed. We all age and this is part of the race towards ever-increasing disorder. But it is only the universe as the whole that must increase in entropy, not just each of its components. If we reverse the arrow of time in a living organism, we make a technological challenge but not a physical impossibility. We are making progress on new fronts such as stem cells, yeast and even mice and human muscle tissue. Someone thinks of eternal life, which is not imminent, but sooner or later something will happen. Many dare to believe and hope for it. But to do what? I then ask myself.

The Arrow Of Time

Personally, I would like to have the opportunity to start all over again. I don’t know what Amelia would do if she could reverse the arrow of time and go back to that day fifty years ago. To tell the truth, I can’t say either. A return to the past? Perhaps the future is better than daring the arrow.The average time of a life is made up of one billion heartbeats. Both simple and complex organisms die. It is sad to say but it is a necessary part of the picture of the human condition: life pushes the new, eliminating the old.

Life Pushes The New

There is a simple scale of values ​​in this sense and it concerns the body’s metabolism.To make fifty years of married life it takes two billion beats to challenge time and space together towards the spiritual metabolism.

A Spiritual Metabolism

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