A short spoken reflection (YouTube video) contrasting the Greek concepts chronos (measured clock time) and kairos (meaningful, appointed seasons/moments). The speaker—Chad Silverstein—explains kairos through a personal story about a pivotal experience at age 34, emphasizes creating kairos moments with family and clients, and notes that many historic kairos moments formed around shared food and campfires.
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I love. I love studying history. And the ancient Greeks were really tuned into time. They have two good words. One is chronos, where we get the English word chronometer. You're wearing one, and it tells us about the measurement of time. A watch. Yep. Right. Chronos. And they also had a word called kairos. Kairos is a season of time. Kairos moments are like that time I told you about at the center for Creative leadership at age 34, where that was not another. That was not a Kronos moment. For me. That was kairos. It was a season of time. And I believe it was a divine appointment of time. And you and I and all of humanity have kronos, and we have kairos. And the kairos moments are the ones you'll never forget your life. When you get down, when you get to my age and beyond, the only thing you're going to want to do is create more kairos. It's like redeeming time. And so I spend a lot of time not thinking about how I'm investing my time, but I'm thinking about creating kairos moments with my son, my daughter, with my clients. Like, this is a kairos moment. Yeah, it is. You know, having dinner following this will be another kairos moment. Those aren't like every day. We. We've never had dinner. Yeah, we're having dinner. That's true. Kairos moment. Yeah. And so. And through the history of time, by the way, an awful lot of kairos moments originated around a campfire and food. Yeah. Where people slowed down and they took the time to really talk and discover, like, who each other is, because you don't really do this discovery of who you are on your own. And in America, we're really about the lone wolf. And the truth is that the discovery process is a team game.
