“Time seems to speed up as we age…The likeliest explanation for this phenomenon is that our brains encode the passage of years on the basis of how much information we process in any given interval…as we get older, life gets routinized-we stick to the same few places of residence, the same few relationships and jobs.
The standard advice is to cram your life with novel experiences…but if you have a job or children, much of life will necessarily be somewhat routine, and opportunities may be limited. An alternative, Shinzen Young explains, is to pay more attention to every moment, however mundane: to find novelty not by doing radically different things but by plunging more deeply into the life you already have. Experience life with twice the usual intensity, and your experience of life would be twice as full as it currently is-and any period of life would be remembered as having lasted twice as long.”-Oliver Burkeman
Really like this.
I plan on adopting this into my days going forward.
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