About N3WCLOCK

Hi! Welcome to N3WCLOCK!

Here's how N3WCLOCK works:

Look at the clock.
See what "time" it is.
Think about the questions N3WCLOCK asks.
Feel more in touch with yourself.
Live a happier life.

That's it. Be you. Know you. Love you.

Longer version:

Hi! Welcome to N3WCLOCK. I'm Amy and I'm glad you're here. I invented N3WCLOCK in 2018 for a speech about time. Basically, the speech said: the most important thing to do with your time is to feel your feelings. Then I wrote a book about it. The book is called SWITCH.

N3WCLOCK gives you permission to feel and interview your feelings. All of them. Give them space. They are all important.

N3WCLOCK is based on Robert Plutchik's Wheel of Emotion. I won't get into how cool Robert Plutchik and his work in psychology were here, but trust me, he wants you to feel your feelings, too.

This wheel represents the range of emotions as proposed by Robert Plutchik. It looks like a flower with eight petals total, each a different bright color highlighting eight main emotions: Joy, Trust, Fear, Surprise, Sadness, Disgust, Anger, Anticipation.

In this original wheel, note the secondary emotions between each of the eight core emotions. When N3WCLOCK asks “how is Trust hurting you?” ask yourself about love (Trust + Joy) and submission (Trust + Fear) and make sure you're not confusing the two. We don't take the time for inspection like this and it hurts a great many of us. The idea is to really think about feelings and why you have them and what to do with them. It will become second nature after just a few visits, I promise.

Also look at the intensity words. For Disgust there is the more intense Loathing and the less intense Boredom. Who hasn’t been bored? Note how it’s tied to Contempt (Disgust + Anger = Contempt.) Suddenly, Disgust is a lot more relevant than it was a minute ago. I’m bored sometimes. And kinda cranky about having to do stuff I don’t want to do. That’s technically mild Disgust, my friends. This is important to know because if I start to feel this way too often, I know something in my life needs to change.

There are questions here that may seem silly. “What is Anticipation good for? How does it benefit you?” is a good example. Again—look at the intensities of emotions. You may find that you dull your feelings of Anticipation or Interest because you have experienced disappointment in the past. You may find that Fear or Annoyance is getting in the way of your Anticipation and if you don't examine that and fix it, you will miss out on a great many moments related to Anticipation in your life.

This is a study. Of you.

No one else can do this for you.

Trust me.

It's worth it.