Sale THESCH01 The School of Life 15 Minutes Timer

This elegant hourglass sand timer measures 15 minutes precisely from the start of each turn.

Our lives are so busy and frenetic; we are always forgetting to make time for what really matters. To make sure our priorities are well set, The School of Life have created a finely crafted glass sand timer to remind us to carve out 15 minutes a day for what truly counts. That isn’t very long, and that’s the point: it’s longer than we often give to so many of the things we ostensibly think of as so important – like properly listening to a partner, rationally analysing our career ambitions, or playing in a concentrated way with a child.

The 15 minute glass doesn’t tell you what exactly to do with its allotted time. It just demarcates a very modest and manageable period – then it creates a floor beneath which it suggests we don’t fall. It delicately shames us into doing a minimum of what really counts. It is a gauntlet thrown down to our better selves.

Give yourself 15 minutes to finally write that letter to an old friend, or isolate a short window of time for quiet reflection on an important topic.