Have you ever found yourself answering emails during an important family gathering? Or maybe you've felt that lingering guilt for not being able to perfectly balance career, relationships, health, and personal growth? He is not alone.
"The Limits of Simultaneity" dives deep into the paradox that defines our era: the illusion that we can have everything, do everything, and be everything-simultaneously.
This is not just another book about time management. It is a philosophical, psychological, and practical exploration of why full simultaneity is structurally impossible-and, more importantly, how this impossibility can become your greatest ally in the pursuit of a meaningful life.
Key topics covered:
- The structural impossibility of full simultaneity
- The fragmentation of the corporate subject in the digital age
- Conscious Serialization vs. Dysfunctional Parallelization
- The dialectic between temporal finitude and the desire for plenitude
- Paradox navigation strategies for different contexts
- How to turn time constraints into sources of meaning
- The Metaphysics of Choice and the Human Condition
By reading this book, you will be able to:
- Freedom from chronic guilt for not "getting it all done"
- Develop sequencing strategies that honor your real priorities
- Cultivate mindfulness through conscious choice
- Transform your relationship with time from scarcity to qualitative abundance
- Recognize and challenge internalized unrealistic expectations
- Reimagining success beyond the simultaneity paradigm
- Implement prioritization practices that reflect your deepest values
Ideal for:
- Professionals in high-pressure corporate environments
- Women navigating multiple spheres of responsibility
- Leaders seeking to create more humane organizational cultures
- Entrepreneurs balancing multiple roles
- Anyone who has ever felt like they should be in two places at once
- Graduate students reconciling studies and career
- Working parents
From Winnicott's analysis of the fragmentation of the self to the political economy of time, from the corporate mythology of simultaneity to concrete strategies for transcending paradox-this book offers a map for navigating the most challenging terrain of our times: temporal finitude in a world of infinite possibilities.
Purchase this essential volume of the "Better You" collection now and transform what seemed your greatest limitation into your deepest source of meaning and direction.
About the author.
Prof. Marcão is a prolific writer with more than 300 publications in several languages. His writing, marked by clarity and depth, translates complex concepts into accessible and impactful narratives. A university professor by vocation and a mentor by essence, he imprints in each book a philosophy that values what is meaningful, guiding the reader not only to understand, but to transform.