Sazonov - Time Switching: The Advanced Method of Time Management for Self-Education

If you put as much time into designing your future as your interior, imagine what you could achieve. Jay Samit

Three years ago, I was faced with a problem. I spent every day commuting to my university for more than two hours. During that time, I listened to music, not even realizing that there were such things as audio books. I was frustrated that I spent so much time commuting and intuitively felt like something was wrong. I started to blame my circumstances; I thought that I lived too far from the university. I began to hate the time when I was in transport; I just did not know what to do. But one winter day, while looking at my smartphone, I accidently found a podcast named Knowledge for Men . I started listening to this podcast, which consisted of interviews with successful people. After that day, I no longer listened to music on my commute; I listened to these interviews and gained knowledge.

It was my first experience with switching time. After a while, I began listening to audio books every day. As a result, I read dozens of books a year, gaining knowledge and expertise in economics, finance, psychology, self-development, and so on. Thus, I turned my commuting time into educational time, and the most boring moments of my day turned into the most fascinating. I realized a problem and created an opportunity. This seemingly small change in my everyday life led to the transformation of my life and my perception of time. I started looking at time differently.

Modern technological devices allow for many opportunities to invest time more easily. Today, people can download on their gadgets hundreds of books and educational courses. Technology enables us to use our time effectively and to invest in self-education in situations that were impossible to do so just a decade ago.

It does not matter whether you are at home, in an office, on the go, in line, or in an airplane; you have an opportunity to use this time and invest it in your future. We live in the age of information and knowledge. That is why the implementation of traditional methods of time management is not sufficient. The rules have changed. The world has become much more competitive.

The method of time switching will enable you to learn faster and surpass most people in the quest to acquire knowledge. This method will allow you to find a few additional hours a day that were previously invisible. These hours are still invisible to the majority of people. This method is simple to understand but not easy to implement.

There are a few unsystematic techniques related to this method that are presented in some books and courses. However, to this day, there has been no unified and well-presented concept pertaining to this method because, as was mentioned above, there were no such opportunities for investing time even a decade ago.

The method of time switching is a unique system that allows you to see and use time periods that were not noticed before. Now, lets take a closer look at your time that you do not use for education, work, or socializing with friends. What do you do during this time? In the morning and in the evening, you brush your teeth, you commute to your workplace, you wait in line in some caf, you wait for your friend, and so on. Now, try to answer the following question: How many hours a year do you spend in transport, brushing your teeth, waiting, and just walking down the street? Obviously, it is hundreds of hours. What if I told you that there are people who invest this kind of unnoticed time in themselves? Have you ever wondered how it is possible that a person can know many foreign languages and have deep domain expertise in some field while living in the same 24-hour period as you? In answering this question, you can begin to understand the essence of the time switching method.

The method of time switching is based on the evidence that there is time in our day that we are able to switch to engage in self-education without bringing any harmful effects to what we are already doing. For example, if you are waiting in line, you can just pull out your smartphone and read an e-book or listen to an audio book or podcast without any negative consequences.