Time and productivity

I am about to propose an idea which you might not entirely agree with. But the fact that it’s an idea gives it the freedom of being right or wrong.

One striking thing I have learnt about productivity is that there are always better, faster ways of performing any task. Once we find the fastest means, a faster one spontaneously appears. I mean that there is theoretically no lower limit to the time required for any objective to be achieved. If this is true, then with increasing efficiency the time associated can become so small that we can now assume it not to exist.

In fact from a certain perspective it doesn’t. For example just as the voltage is a standard created because of electricity, time is also a standard created because certain phenomenon in our immediate environment continuously re-occur with great accuracy. An instance is the earth’s rotation about its axis which has the effect of night and day. When this iterates seven times we call it a week, thus bringing time into existence. So from this point of view we see that it all boils down to the basic principle of cause and effect.

We often are so conscious of time that it overshadows the more relevant focus, productivity. However, since time does not exist before an event takes place then it should never be a measure of life’s true value. Instead a less abstract concept, productivity, should be.

It does seem that the picture I have been painting so far presents time as abstract and irrelevant. This would prompt the question; why has time not been long discarded? Considering that I am probably not the first to think of things this way.

I believe that the concept of time is still so relevant for one huge purpose; to measure the more vivid concept productivity. I mentioned previously that productivity could become so large that time may be said not to exist, but that statement in itself will invariably imply that until productivity reaches such a high level, time remains very relevant to our lives and existence. I must conclude mentioning that because time was created by our minds we must have control over it. We are to use time and not get unsettled by it, because it is only a measure of productivity and not the template by which we must live.