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New roads 🌑

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TL;DR

This video explores how our perception of time changes as we age and how familiarity can make experiences feel shorter.

perception of timefamiliarity in experienceslife lessonschildhood memoriesimportance of new experienceshow we perceive timegrowing upmindfulness in life

Chapters

  1. 0:00Driving to a New Place
    01
  2. 0:10The Return Journey
    02
  3. 0:20Mind's Attention
    03
  4. 0:30Childhood Summers
    04
  5. 0:40Life's Perception
    05
  6. 0:50Taking New Roads
    06

Transcript

0:00

Imagine you're driving somewhere you've never been. It takes 30 minutes. Then you drive home, same road, same 30 minutes. But the drive home goes faster. Why? Because I already know the way. And when the way, what does your mind do? It stops paying attention, I guess.

0:14

Tell me what you saw on the drive home. Nothing. That's why it felt short. Your mind saved nothing. When you were a boy, how long was one summer? It felt like forever. Because everything was the first time.

0:28

So life doesn't speed up when you get older. It speeds up when you stop seeing it. The years aren't going faster. I just stopped taking new roads.

0:43

I just stopped taking new roads.

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