These two scenes show us the value-shifting magic of language. Language can shape how we frame our experiences. Language can make us pay extra attention to what we consume and direct our attention to specific parts of the experience.

Time also seems to speed up as we become older. Even cultural and social factors can contribute, including the language we use to talk about time. Time, far from being a series of identical and interchangeable units, is a profoundly personal and fluid experience. This is a more accurate representation of Your Life in Weeks, as we perceive it:

the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the