Introduction: Mastering time and personal and social development
Ana Ponce de León Elizondo and M.ª Ángeles Valdemoros San Emeterio
Dost thou love life?, asked Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), immediately continuing, Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Life is time, and time, life; so those who love life make good use of time because life is the time they have (Pérez Ibarra, 2016)1. Nothing is as personal or egalitarian as time, because we all have the same amount — 24 hours a day — contrary to what happens with personal talents or material goods, which generate stark differences between human beings. Seneca addressed the perceived shortness
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