Best Of: Stuck in the Twilight Zone
One of the most popular episodes of the original Twilight Zone series is “Time Enough at Last.” Burgess Meredith plays Henry Bemis, a bank teller with thick glasses who is obsessed with reading.
One day, during his lunch break, he goes to the bank vault to read. Suddenly, there is a violent explosion, which knocks him out. He later wakes up to find that an atomic bomb has destroyed the world. He was protected from the blast by the bank vault, and now he is the only person left on earth.
Henry wanders the ruined city in despair and comes to the town library where he finds all the books still intact. He suddenly realizes that he has all the time in the world to read and no one to bother him. In one of the greatest plot twists in television history, he reaches down for a book and drops his glasses, shattering the lenses.
Henry Bemis had all the time in the world, but lost the one tool he needed to make use of it.
On today’s episode, Kent encourages us to try a piece of productivity advice from the creator of The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling.
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