Write Up:
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of.”
If you look back and go through your work process from the day before, would you say you were organized? Or did you plan your procedures thoroughly? Or do you believe you had enough time to complete your project?
Depending on how you answered the following questions, reveals how well you manage your time according to Stephen R Covey’s, “Four Generations of Time Management.”
This interactive/ installation piece touches upon the theory of time management. I demonstrate the theory of time management by having my audience members conduct the “Pickle Jar Theory”. Which consists of a jar, rocks, pebbles and sand. This experiment is intended on demonstrating how one is expected to live their life style. In an orderly and scheduled manner. To begin the project you start with a pickle jar. Following that procedure, you put as many of the larger rocks as you possibly can until the jar is full. Once you have finished that step, put as many pebbles into the jar as you possibly can fit. After that you place the sand inside the jar until there is no more space in the jar. Lastly you will fill the jar up with water.
This process is a representation of our scheduled lives, and what it is like to be “managed”. Each of us has many large priorities in our life, which was represented symbolically by the large rocks. We also schedule moment in life in which we enjoy doing, the pebbles served as this symbol. That we have other things which we must complete, which is represented by the sand. And lastly, we have obligations that simply clutter up our lives and make their way into everything: water. In each of our lives we must make time and find a balance with in things, in order to feel truly fulfilled and non cluttered. If you make time for everything, it will simply fit where it is desired to fit.
Presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fouN2mZpes&feature=youtu.be
Beginning Process:
First Idea: (Fail)
