Notes from Session 1: September 28th

Brainstorming – TIME….
Is long, is short, moves forward, is of the essence, waits for no man, is memory, bring age, is frustrating, constraining, measurable, moves with the sun, entirely man made, is arbitrary, is not created or destroyed, slows down as you approach the speed of light, relative(ity), black hole, tick tock, music, meter, heartbeat, is a song, is not linear, is linear, is on my side, is (relatively) infinite, is finite, is running out, is a machine, is unperceivable, time is up, is standing still, is now, time for bed, what time? (Mr. Wolf), timing is everything, No-Time Toulouse, Greenwich Mean Time, Time Zone, Time for a New Page, No time like the Present, 18:60, Sundials, shadows, sleep time, tea time, growth, wrinkle in…, sometimes too fast/slow, shaving time off, Resource Depletion Graph, Space-Time, Best-Time, Appropriate Times, First times, Good/bad/ugly time.

Time Brainstorm Summary:
- dictates a lot of our behavious
- steers us
- we haven’t defined time, [in our brainstorming] we have defined us.
- It’s a Big Idea like LOVE
- Relative to Everyone’s Experiences
- When did we invent [the idea of] time?
- Time is always moving, and is therefore stagnant

What Strategies did people use to sit still for seven minutes?
- Songs/Monologues
- Some people got up when they became anxious
- Graham baked cookies recently, which took about 12 minutes, so he was aiming for “One half-baking of cookies”

One interesting definition of POWER: the ability to bring down everyone else if you fail.

Also learned about something important: 3 ways of WAITING:
- Waiting for something that you know is coming [enduring]
- Waiting for something that doesn’t exist [misconception]
- Waiting for something that you don’t know exists, but does [hopelessness]

End of Session:
- Started with time this session, will go on to other topics later
- For those who attended the first session, come back with 3 things that really stuck out from this week to next week’s session (October 5th)