Your Perception Of Time And Space Is Radically Altered By The Language You Speak
We do not experience time flowing, or passing. What we experience are differences between our present perceptions and our present memories of past perceptions. We interpret those differences, correctly, as evidence that the universe changes with time. We also interpret them, incorrectly, as evidence that our consciousness, or the present, or someth
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
Time, and how we experience time, is always a cultural creation. Most cultures are taught—to put this very simply—that time is circular. Subsequently, you can see the world being played out in a circular way. What’s interesting about Western cultures is, at some point, we said, “You know what? We’re not circular. We’re an arrow. We’re not looking f
... See moreDebbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Finally, the sense of the duration of time is altered; hours pass by in minutes, and minutes can stretch out to seem like hours.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
For us a "long time" can be almost anything- ten or twenty years, two or three months, a few weeks, or even a couple of days. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to th ink of a "long time" in terms of th ousands of years or even an endless period. A colleague once described their conceptualization of time as follows: "Tim... See more
Edward T. Hall • THE SILENT LANGUAGE
In other words, the Hopi language uses words that describe the present moment, and what’s happening in the moment, with no words to directly describe the past or future.