Sir "william osler" the Father of Modern Medicine, mentioned the key behind his success in life which is "Live within the confines of your day" , which means to focus all your attention and be centered within your current day, yesterday was a dream, and tomorrow is a blank page. each day you wake up from bed is a whole new life for you. this doesn't mean to don't plan for the future or learn from our mistakes from the past. but just synchronizing your brain over time. to avoid stress and negative useless thinking. and be focused in the moment. I've been suffering all my life specially the last years, looking for a practical method(rule) to live. i've tried to divide my life into steps where each step has it's own work style to follow(concentrate on each step,when it's turn comes), and tried to use different rules in the same fashion. but i don't know what is the best. what do you think about sir William's idea? do you have other ideas/rules, to synchronize brain with time?
2007-04-04 00:10:35 · 12 answers · asked by Hamdi 2007 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Sounds like your doctor was into Carpe Diem, siezing the day. That is fine if you know that each day is equal, but what if you are wrong and tomorrow is just a little longer or a little shorter, or maybe twice as long or not even exist. You could find yourself happy one day and exhausted the next. You didn't worry about it but you probably hated it on the tiresome day. So which is worse, to worry or to be frustrated and angry? I missed the part where worry was proven to be a bad thing. Perhaps if we all stopped thinking we could avoid stress all together. It seems logical. I also missed the part where time management was an issue. You organize your task into immediate, short term and long term projects and set up each day to accomplish the immediate tasks and with the time remaining do a little bit of the short term and or long term tasks so that in time they too become immediate tasks but they are much smaller and more accomplishable in the day at hand. That is just basic planning. But here is the catch, you have to think to make these plans and if you do then you might just worry about whether you are right in your calculations or not. I think your doctor was over simplifying the way people feel and think and trying to ignore the possibility that many people do things that make them unhappy because they can't think of another way to do things and they worry because they are unhappy to begin with and getting things done on time has nothing to do with what is really upsetting them.
2007-04-07 22:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Sir William's idea is great for him. I don't follow it. I can't even fathom following it. It is beyond me. I would throw it out to somebody as an idea if he/she were looking for ideas on how to structure his/her life, but it sounds more to me like an ideal than something most people could do day to day....maybe obsessive compulsive could, no offense intended.
I don't have any ideas or rules to even begin to synchronize my brain with time, though I would love to. I think this is my genetic make-up, possibly taken together with my up-bringing. As Popeye the Sailor would say, I Y'am what I Y'am.
I struggle to live in the present but I mostly live in the past or in anticipation of the future.
I am sometimes unable to react to events/relational episodes that happen to me in real time. I work on this all the time but nobody has a clue I even see it as an issue.
I think Osler must have been exceptional. I can't imagine how he did it. He reminds me of Plato. Sorry wrong answer, wrong category. :)
2007-04-07 18:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by margot 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Live within the confines of your day is truly great advice. It was so good that alcoholics anonymous borrowed that wisdom to help in recovery. One Day At A Time is how they say it. Today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Sanskrit Proverb
2016-05-17 04:28:25 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dream or the past. Which is it? if it is but a dream it would be associated with the sleep state of mind and loosely held. if it is the past which has been the byproduct of the day, then it is a solid foundation. living within the confines of the day.?
2007-04-04 00:23:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live for today, I look forward to tomorrow and I reflect on the past. Therefor, I synchronize it all when I sleep and see it in my dreams. That's practical for me.
2007-04-04 00:24:04 · answer #5 · answered by Smahteepanties 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do see merit in living in today, focusing on what is right in front of you,, set daily goals,,,, to me, it helps keep life in order,,,, at the same time, yes, it must be balanced with the future, goals you have, plans you make,,,,,,, personally i have had to focus more on the future, as i lived too much in the moment,,,, so i think dont go extreme with any of it, but have balance, spend part of your day living in today, but set aside a part to think about the future, and jot some notes on that blank page that is tomorrow
2007-04-04 00:18:13 · answer #6 · answered by dlin333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
do the day thing, that's practically what I do without thinking about it,and I'm never depressed. Not that I am giggly giggly uppity, just comfy.
it's a good way to live.
2007-04-04 00:15:54 · answer #7 · answered by Scott and Friends 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that this is the best way to live. and guiding the brain & mind from running after everything we see!
2007-04-07 22:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by mr.kotiankar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a better idea!0!
I created another hour. See, my day has 25 hours!0!
Dare to create!
2007-04-04 04:32:52 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carpe Diem!!! Seize the day.
2007-04-04 00:34:31 · answer #10 · answered by meganzopf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋