How Different Cultures Understand Time

There’s an interesting article in Business Insider about how different cultures understand time (ht Nikolay Bezhko). It includes this neat graphic.

 

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The article is rather limited (does not mention the very relevant books by Robert Levine, Jay Griffiths and Jeremy Rifkin on the subject), but does make several interesting observations.

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  1. MOAR plz

    In the Big Co I work for, the culture is defined along a huge rift between the introverts and the extroverts: tech vs business. Business is a pushy, ego-driven, intrusive popularity contest they try to upsell as “soft skills”. Tech is circumspect, logical, restrained and sensible to the effects on the whole.