Introduction to English Version

Although the procedure at majority of books in area of soft skills is reverse (= first English version, then translation into a minority language), this text was adapted from the Czech original “Time management nejvyssi generace v kostce“. The author of the original is David Gruber, the co-author of the original is his son Jan Gruber, PhD. As for adaptation into English, incl. translation, the majority of work has been done by Jan. As for David, we can mark him as a „co-adaptor“ or „co-translator“.

The adaptation int English required some remarks. These remarks are included as footnotes. Several examples and context can be unfamiliar for people from English speaking countries. The vast majority of David Gruber's work was accomplished behind the Iron Curtain, but the basic principles presented in the text should be general enough. Therefore only minor additions were needed.  We hope that the result will serve your best interests, self-improvement and that you will enjoy the book as much as more than one million of Czech readers enjoyed and enjoy more than 50 David Gruber´s books since 1979.

David and Jan Gruber, March 2013

David Gruber

The Final Generation of Time Management in Six Steps

In the Nutshell

Motto:

The time spent on unnecessary things is the time missing for necessary ones.

Final Generation?

Is it possible to designate some time management methodology as “the final generation”? Isn't it too bold, too audacious?

As a matter of fact, the final generation means that there can be no other higher generation or more effective generation for anyone in need for economizing his or her time.

There are well-known “final generations of knowledge” in other areas. We shall present two examples. The first one from  mathematics and the second one from human nutrition.

The First Example - Mathematics

Imagine that somewhere around you there is an object shaped like a right-angled triangle. It could be a parcel, part of a building, part of some machinery or any other device. Now imagine that someone offers you a piece of knowledge about this triangular shape called “how to determine the length of one side knowing the lengths of other two”.

The first generation know-how tells us: If one ordinate is three meters long and the second  ordinate is four meters long then you do not have to measure the longest side (called hypotenuse) at all. We have figured it out for you! Do not waste your time by measuring, the hypotenuse is five meters long. Congratulations for buying this piece of know-how and please come back again.

The second generation know-how tells us: If one ordinate is three meters, kilometers,  foots, yards, miles long and the second ordinate is four meters, kilometers, foots, yards, miles long then you do not have to measure the longest side (called hypotenuse) at all.  Do not waste your time by measuring, the hypotenuse is five meters, kilometers, foots, yards, miles long. We have figured it out for you! We are the second generation. In addition to the first generation know-how we present knowledge about several triangular shapes in one package. Unit of measurement doesn't matter, the ratio of sides is always 3:4:5. Congratulations for buying this know-how and please come back again.

The third generation know-how tells us: We have an improvement over the second generation, additional benefit increase. The ratio of right-angled triangle sides is always 3:4:5. If you know any two out of three lengths and if those two lengths are from this triad then you do not have to measure the third side at all. It is always the third number from the triad 3, 4, 5. So now you have procedure how to determine the third side of this right-angled triangle without measurement - being it the longest, the shortest or the middle side. And that is not all! The same rule applies for multiples of this ratio. For 3:4:5, for 6:8:10, for 9:12:15 and so on ad infinitum. Oh, we are smart guys, aren't we? Pay us for this third generation know-how much more than for the second generation. It is worth the price!

Fourth generation know-how tells us: We are even better than the third generation. Not only the ratio 3:4:5 and any multiples of these work. We disclose another possible ratio to you. It is 5:12:13. (And you see, it is not a multiple of 3:4:5.) And validity of deducing the third side also holds for any multiples of this new ratio 5:12:13.

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