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Less Chronos, More Kairos: Stop Counting Hours and Start Counting Moments That Matter
An ancient perspective that will make you look at life in new ways
Do you know that dreadful feeling when you keep watching the clock because you can’t wait for a boring 60 minutes presentation to be over?
You’re just waiting for the minutes to pass by. One by one.
On the contrary, there are moments when you feel like you have completely lost track of time. Whatever you’re doing, you’re completely absorbed by it.
You’ve got no idea how long it’s been, but it doesn’t matter. You may have lost ‘‘hours’’ according to the clock, but it doesn’t feel like it. Rather, it adds to your wellbeing.
When we’re in this flow state, we live kairologically. When we’re just measuring time, we live chronologically.
We don’t make this distinction in this modern day and age. But the ancient Greeks did. They knew we needed two words for time: chronos and kairos.
Chronos is quantitative. Kairos is qualitative.
Kairos is time measured in meaningful experiences — moments that shift our paradigm, open our eyes and deepen our relationships. You can’t measure it in seconds, minutes or hours.
