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Classical Greek rhetoric (kairos) combined with chronobiologyTill Roenneberg ('Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired', 2012) and Isocrates / classical kairos doctrine

Kairotics — the study of timing — was serious business in ancient Greek rhetoric. Orators were trained not just in what to say but in the precise moment a speech would land...

What task have you been doing at the time that's merely available, and what would it look like to find when it's...

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