Slipstream Time Hacking: How to Cheat Time, Live More, And Enhance Happiness

by Benjamin P. Hardy

Time is the number one currency of life. Time is the new money. People want it more than anything else. As you read SLIPSTREAM TIME HACKING and apply the principles contained therein, you will learn


1. Quickly design the life of your choosing
2. Add decades of quality time to your life
3. Achieve bigger goals than you can presently conceive
4. Command time rather than the other way around


This book will provide you a mind-bending and soul-expanding experience like no other self-improvement book you’ve ever read. The goal is to radically alter your entire perception of reality and what’s possible.


Take control of your time – take control of your life. Our time should be of utmost quality and memorable. As you read these pages, you will see in a very real way, that most people spend only a few minutes living every 24 hours. Most people’s time is on fast-forward to their deathbed. This may be you right now.


The goal is to get where you want to be—your ideal life—quickly so you can live there as long as possible. You can live thousands of years’ worth of life in a single life-time by understanding the principles in this book.


SLIPSTREAM TIME HACKING will challenge you to answer these


1. Ideally, how would you spend your time?
2. What activities, if you could spend the majority of your time doing, would be most impactful?
3. What activities would be most meaningful and important?
4. What lifestyle resonates with your firmest convictions?


Take action. Read SLIPSTREAM TIME HACKING and live the life you always wanted to live right now.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Productivity, Personal Development, Psychology, Business, Science

ebook

Published December 21, 2015

About the author

Dr. Benjamin P Hardy is an organizational psychologist with a Ph.D. from Clemson University, and a father of six. He currently lives in Windermere, Florida

Reviews

[Stephen Heiner · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is a good first book effort by Benjamin Hardy. He's clearly passionate about the material. He's also thoughtful and well-read. He shares lots of interesting anecdotes and important quotes.

The major takeaway from the book is the concept of the slipstream/wormhole itself. I'm quite familiar with the material as a dedicated science-fiction nerd, but it was fascinating to think about the concept as applied to life and business. The idea of living life faster/slower based on how you are leveraging wormholes is worth thinking about, and I would urge even the least nerdy to make it through the first 40 pages, as this is what sets you up for the rest of the book.

I also really appreciated his discussion of the fact that any great slipstream/wormhole, if taken in the wrong direction, could be disastrous. He talks about some opportunities that clearly could have set him up for big financial success - but he knew it wasn't right for him - and that takes courage to walk away from. Many people go with the sure thing, because safe is easy.

This book is the start of a journey for the author, and I'm interested to see what he has for us next.

[Hana Kazazovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book completely changed my perception of time. This is one of these books that when you read it you can actually feel how the wheels in your brain start moving in a different way. Everything looks the same, but you have a clearer picture of your life and you want to share that feeling with other people. I wrote a blog post about this book on http://tila.me/taughts-reading-slipst...

Ova knjiga mi je potpuno promijenila percepciju o vremenu. Ovo je jedna od onih knjiga koje pročitate i osjetite kako vam se pomiču točkići u glavi. Sve nakon toga izgleda isto ali imate jasniju sliku života ispred sebe i želite to podijeliti sa ostalim ljudima. Napisala sam tekst o njoj na blogu http://cyberbosanka.me/kako-mi-je-knj...

[Tre · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book put vocabulary around what I have been doing institutionally for years. Hardy breaks down how to advance ones career and life via focus and intention.

The first chapter is a bit dense and may make you feel like you are reading a cross between a physics book and a hippie spiritual book, but push past and get into the meat of the book. The last chapter also goes a bit God focused for my taste but it doesn't diminish the value I got out of the book.

[Owen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Raises some interesting questions about what it means to live a full life, and why days at work seem long but years of work go by in a flash. But the writing is sometimes too poor to clearly convey the author's ideas—or perhaps, the ideas are a little muddled to begin with.

[Craig Bosman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stop and think.

This is an amazing perspective. The context has been talked about in many different ways, but to me this book flipped a switch. As soon as it flipped, I finished the book as fast as I could. Probably just to read it again and hopefully soak in more of the plentiful points worth living by. Excellent piece of personal growth and discovery.

[Kyle Morey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Within the time it took for me to read this book, multiple wormholes to a better future opened up that, had I not been reading, would not have been realized. I highly recommend Slipstream Time Hacking to those who desire to make their own destinies a reality, right now.

[Abdulrahman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well... i couldn't take much from the book and the repetition was not necessary. Hope to see the author in in another book

[Judith · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a very interesting premise. A lot of the final advice is similar to what you'd find elsewhere, in terms of clarifying your goals and so on, but I found several notions helpful:
- dilation of experienced time and the opposite, when you are saving up years for a goal
- slipstreams in which it's easier to travel, and which can be be faster/slower than your current speed
- wormholes that can instantly get you very far, but not necessarily where you want to be

[Kilian Markert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slipstream Time Hacking is a splendid book that encourages contemplating how you spend your time and move forward.

The big idea I took out of the book was the idea of Congruence. Being aligned with your deepest purpose and desires is the best way to reach your goals fast while being able to enjoy the journey through full presence.

However, some things did not result 100% clear to me or contradicted with other ideas.
Maybe someone has a better understanding and could clarify the following questions:

The premise of the book is: "The faster someone moves toward a desired destination, the slower time moves for them“. What does „move“ mean here? Distance travelled? Thus, achievement of goals? Reaching desired destinations? Move faster as in reaching them faster and therefore have more time?

If time subjectively always feels the same (for Tim Ferriss and for „normal“ people) why trying to slow it?

When you went through the wormhole of marrying your wife and leap-frogged far into your future, you say that you moved fast, time felt the same but you have aged by decades even though you now had endless time. How does this accelerated aging fit together with the expected slowing of time? Also, what is your „new velocity that slows time“ in this regard?

Is the whole idea of slowing time just the result of doing what you love and reaching your goals faster than in a job you resent and therefore have more time left?

While comparing yourself and Tim Ferris, you say „you age 10 years while he went to sleep and woke up again“. Do I get the message correctly that moving fast and the resulting time dilation is another tool for productivity, achieving desired destinations faster? The same for the Bill Gates example, he „slowed time for humanity“. He leap-frogged us forward in achievement/development, having gone further in these areas than we would without him in the same time, but how has he slowed time/ saved time if time subjectively still feels the same for everyone?

For Aunt Joni time slows down for 2 weeks when she is doing art even though it is not the normal state (as explained in the section on „Doesn't time fly by when we do things we enjoy?“). So why can Dan and everybody else not slow down in two week paid vacations, where they can do things they enjoy as well?


Highly recommend Ben Hardy's material!

[Chris Regan · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars for the powerful ideas around slowing down your relative time. The faster you move, the more you focus, the slower time moves and the more you create.

Powerful.

[Dez Van Der Voort · Rating 2 out of 5]

Writing: 3/5
Knowledge Gained: 2/5
Enjoyment: 2/5

The author feels like an adolescent, or a youth just entering college, and trying to find his way. He's on the right path, but maybe 20 years + of maturity, and we'll get a better book.

The book, in a nutshell, is small wisdom from the Bible, self-help books, and famous people, along with the author's belief, that we can hack time, and produce more, through quantum theory, or just plain concentration. Not much new here in terms of self-help.

He believes, if you could get the work done in a day, why waste a week on it? One can see the flaws in this sentence. If you are wasting time, then def do it in a day. If you're aiming for a 99% quality, with respect to a 95% quality, then maybe the 6 extra days are needed. Finally, some tasks require a week, and not a day. Take baking for example, baking at 180 degrees for 40 minutes, does not mean 1800 degrees in 4 minutes. Nor does practising the piano for 7 hours for one day, equal to one hour a day for 7 days.

[Kelly · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've read some of Benjamin's articles and appreciate their alternative thinking. While I find plenty to disagree with in each one, they get me unstuck from the echo chamber of my own habits. I think blogs and articles are a better medium for him. This book was a bit of a mess.

To be fair, it was unlike any book I've read. It seemed to be only loosely meeting the criteria of a "book" anyway, which I'm sure would not bother a person who wants to leave many societal conventions and expectations in the rear view mirror. This book was published by a Kickstarter campaign and the amateur nature shows: it's long on theory and opinion, short on evidence (or even anecdote), and riddled with typos and grammatical errors. Four of the 13 citations at the end of the book are either Wikipedia or YouTube—surprising for a PhD student. He has basically published a stream-of-consciousness brainstorm for a much longer, clearer book that he's in too much of a hurry to write. This is what it looks like to value quantity over quality. Whether it's better to reach people now with a lesser product versus later with a masterpiece is a fair debate, but there's no doubt where this guy comes down. That made it hard for me to take his advice seriously, since I would not care to emulate the "success" of being known for a shoddy product... even if it does get published.

Finally, in a critique I find myself having to level at a surprising proportion of my reading material, there are basically no women in this book. It is wholly male-centric; the role models are male and it's written with an assumed male audience (i.e., just do it... ask that girl out!). Please jump out of your own experience for a hot second and consider that you probably have female readers and that you might want to have some female friends and role models informing your work. Yikes.

[Joaquin Dario · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite good, the beginning was much better than I expected. However from the middle till the end, I began to disagree with some of the things expresed in the book. It is worth reading though. I would definitely recomend the first half of the book though.

[Ruben Baetens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast-reading booklet on accelerating time in order to slow down. The right book to read on the right time, yet being confronting when wasting time, also the wrong book to read on the wrong time.

[Jitariu Catalin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very interesting ideea, but felt a bit disappointed at the end. Maybe I was expecting more tools or ideas about slipstream.

[Cara · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I discovered this book and saw what it was about, I was so excited! Ever since I read The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks, I’ve wanted to be able to bend and stretch time to my own advantage, but I didn’t really understand how to do it from what I read in that book. I was hoping this book would help me finally crack it.

Not really, though. The book spends a lot of time talking about the concept and why it’s important, and kinda-sorta how it works. But just when it gets to the part where it seems like it will be actionable, it just goes off into a bunch of trite bullshit, some of which seems to have been added somewhat at random.

So many quotes, so many words, and so much stuff I’ve heard so many times before.

The author wraps up by talking about his wild, slipstream-induced success in the world of blogging. Oh, those were the days! When you could write a bunch of good blog posts and get them featured as guest posts, and that would get you somewhere!

Anyway, the useful takeaways in this book boil down to this:
- Some people live a lot more life in their life. The way they do that is by being conscious about what they will and won’t spend their time on, curating and only spending time on things that get them somewhere they want to go, and focusing a lot of energy on the things that matter most to them.
- The concept of slipstreams for time-hacking is kind of like the ladders in Chutes and Ladders—some opportunities will spring you way ahead really fast. The key is to know where you want to go first, and take only the slipstreams that are going toward the right destination. (Slipstreams = like when a bunch of bikers or geese go in the same direction, the ones in back can be pulled along by the draft of the first one.)
- Some things that help are good mentors, masterminds where everyone is helping each other rather than competing, and marrying a wife who has a lot more money than yo do. (This was seriously featured in two of the first examples in this book.)

I don’t know. On one hand, I agree with pretty much everything the author said, except when he got all preachy. Well, and the part about the morning routine. Fuck that shit. But other than that, the reason I have such a good life is because I’ve consciously created it and eliminated as much time-wasting bullshit and stuff I don’t like or care about possible. To a pretty major extent, I’m already living this book, and have been for 12 years.

On the other hand, I’m still really disappointed that this book didn’t give me some big secret to being able to slow down time consciously. Maybe the author would say he did, but it doesn’t seem that way to me.

I guess he kind of did, in a roundabout way: basically, stop wasting time and do more important stuff, and you’ll be going faster, so time will be slower relative to you. Which I guess is true. It’s just not all that satisfying.

[Mimi · Rating 4 out of 5]

The concept of “Time Hacking” & “Slipstream” may sound kind of science fiction. When teading theu the book, I was very surprised at this new concept, specifically having to conclude that it is a very practical & feasible concept within everybody’s reach. B Hardy is a very passionate writer which reflects on the reader. Also the 6 D’s digital framework, is an eye opener concept in today’s globalized ever changing world. It depicts in a concise manner the “flow” of digitized & its impacts & to what it leads in our everyday world.
Too many people just libe their lives as it comes along. Too many people hide themselves behind the excuse of “insufficient time, time goes too fast”.
This book drastically highlights that the saying “i have not enough time” is rubbish.
It is just a matter of how to apply your time, and DOING what you need to do.
A very enlightening book with fresh concepts !
Definitely worth reading for those who appreciate thinking outside of the box !

[Lakpa Tashi Bhutia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the best book I have read in long time. The kind of self help book which everybody should read once in a life time. The book is so motivational and empowering at the same time. After you would finished this book, you'll get a vibe which you were searching whole this time.

This book has taken the definition of life to the whole new level. Your perspective towards life would change drastically. The concept of time described is awesome. It'll give you a feeling like we had always enough time to do whatever we want in life. You can frog jump any conventional way to move forward in timespace.

The theory of timespace may sound technical to some. But believe at the end you would be full of wisdom. You should apply those wisdom in your life. You would definitely get better in life.
Knowledge without application is worthless.

[Lukas Michalek]

Everyone gets only 24 hours in a day. But how much more could you get done—and how much more life could you experience—if you could slow those hours down and ensure you’re getting the most out of every moment? Organizational psychologist Benjamin Hardy writes in Slipstream Time Hacking (2015) that you can do exactly that, moving more quickly to make time run more slowly.

In this guide, we’ll explore Hardy’s theory that you can increase the speed you’re traveling toward your goals while simultaneously decreasing the rate at which time seems to pass—effectively buying yourself more time to enjoy the ride. Along the way, we’ll look at how other psychology, physics, and even science fiction experts have explored the principles that Hardy incorporates into his method.

[Ranjeeth R · Rating 3 out of 5]

Except for a few points, there is nothing new in this book. but the few points will change your perspective of how time flows. A good book which makes you stop and think where you're headed, nothing more than that. it starts with reality, then some fiction, then some science and later on author tries to thrust his religious beliefs down your throat. He tries to become philosophical but it is too shallow even to be considered philosophical if you have a slight inclination towards philosophy. in short, the book wants to be everything but falls short in many aspects it wants to be. just okay read

[Danielius Goriunovas · Rating 3 out of 5]

The BAD: ...Benjamin JUST DOESN'T EVER STOP TALKING. Jesus. If you would remove all the repetitions from this book, you would have something 10 times shorter. Maybe even shorter than that.

The GOOD: There was some interesting ideas how productivity is at it's best when you are standing on shoulders of a giants - have a mentor or find your purpose for being productive in the first place.

The BAD: Only 1/10 of the non-repeating words bring some useful tips and how to use them. This book is more a phylosophy and brainwashing than tips and tricks that you could use.

The GOOD: I liked Benjamin choises of words.

[Alex Drysdale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely worth downloading and reading.

The whole concept gives you a new way to look at and value time.
.... and how can you beat FREE??

Gave me a new appreciation for time and everything actually stuck in my brain.

Second half of the book wasn't as good as the first, and doesn't read as well as a big published book but is good none the less.

I would recommend grabbing it if you're a busy person or just generally ambitious.
Will give you a new appreciation for how much time we have here.

Reminds me a lot of a book written in 5 A.D. by Seneca, On the Shortness of Life.
These two go great together.

[Kim Jeonghoon · Rating 2 out of 5]

처음에 상대성 이론을 바탕으로 시간관리를 설명할 때만 해도 아주 참신하다고 생각했다. 듣다 보면 그럴 듯 하기도 하고.

그런데 중간 중간에 예시를 든답시고 써놓은 것들이 너무 와닿지 않아서 실망스러웠다. 예를 들면,

"15년 안에 하와이 가겠다고 결심을 했다고 칩시다. 그런데 만약에 지금 당장 하와이에 다녀온다면? 나머지 시간 동안 더 엄청난 일들을 할 수 있어요!"
"대학 졸업 후에 학자금 대출 때문에 빚이 많았습니다. 마흔 쯤 되어야 다 갚을 수 있겠다 생각했는데 부자 마누라를 만나는 덕에 한 방에 다 갚았어요. 덕분에 저는 그 뒤에 제가 진짜로 할 수 있는 일을 좇을 수 있었습니다."
"제가 아는 아무개씨는 가족들과 함께 있는 시간을 소중히 여깁니다. 아이들과도 시간을 많이 보냈고 아버지가 돌아가시기 직전에도 시간을 많이 보내서 후회하지 않는 삶을 살았죠. 이게 다 아무개씨 부인이 사업에 성공해서 아무개씨가 일찍 은퇴할 수 있었기 때문입니다."

그러니까.... 돈이 중요한 건 아니라고 책에서 내내 강변하면서 결국은 돈으로 행복을 살 수 없다면 돈이 부족한 것은 아닌지 생각해 보자는 그런 결론이 나온 것 같다.

그래도 책이 킨들스토어에서 공짜라서 별 2개는 줌.

[Anne Kedi · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept of Time Hacking is a kind of revelation/game changer to me. I tried reading this book one year ago and it was quite a challenge so it finally stayed unread in my gallery. What I learnt from the process is that to understand and enjoy Slipstream, you need to be ready, ready to go through a reframing of your mind. Otherwise, you may find the reading quite difficult. Now that I was ready, the whole concept of slipstream and wormholes just created new opportunities in my mind. My greatest take-away: be ready to seize the opportunities which will let you enter slipstreams and in the meantime enjoy the ride. (His book is my first slipstream of 2018).

[Anthony Locke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Much of what's most helpful about this book is toward the beginning as Hardy defines slipstream time hacking. While time is a fixed thing - 24 hours in a day, our perception of time can vary depending on how engaged we are with our various present stewardships. He argues that someone can jump into the future and both grow and enjoy life at the same time. This often comes by shaking the status quo and taking risks, or seizing unforeseen opportunities and having a clear long-term goal. The book reads more like a series of short blog articles, some a bit more wonky than others, but overall Hardy addresses some pretty interesting ideas surrounding our perception of time.

[Karthikeyan Pethusamy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some quotes from the book:
"The faster someone moves toward a desired destination, the slower time moves for them."

"A person choosing to spend large portions of time in an unsatisfying job in order to make ends meet is on a fast track to his deathbed."

"Change doesn’t have to take a long time, it happens the instant we decide ."

"The more new experiences, the slower time was perceived to have passed"

"Anything is possible, but not everything is possible"

"If we have more than three priorities, we have none."

"When you commit to something 100%, all of your future choices are already made—no matter how attractive the circumstances."

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not up to the standard of his other books.

Im also not even sure how much of the book is genuine advice on getting accelerated results and how much is part science fiction and part explaining genuine scientific principals - the understanding of which is not relevant to achieving results faster.

Still it is a short read, a little different, mostly interesting and good motivation not to waste time when there is a faster way - often a way paved by others we can emulated with the right educational approach.

[Dr. Brent · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book opened up ways of looking at my life differently

Fascinating! This book was unexpected. I thought I would read the same ideas I had in other time saving books. It was different because some of the actionable ideas were completely new. The concepts were already defined for me in other areas of my life, but they were presented in a totally different context. I'm excited to try them out. I hope you will read this book and have a similar experience as I have. I recommend this book.

[Astrid Eastman · Rating 3 out of 5]

To be honest, the first part of the book dives into a lot of science based talk about light speed and time moving slower and faster and it wasn't something that I could really grasp ( my brain just doesn't absorb that information well). But after you get throught that part, there are some good nuggets of info about learning how to look at developing a plan to get to your goals in more efficient ways so that you meet them faster. I'm totally simplifying the concepts in the book but it's definitely worth reading through (maybe even a couple of times!)

[Beth · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think I got this book because it was recommended by another book.
repetitive. not concrete.
the concept of slipping into a 'wormhole" to meet you goals - and do what you want t do would have been more interesting if his first 'wormhole' was more than happenstance.

most of the ideas in this book I had read in countless business articles.

I finished this book because I was arguing with the author.