Neuroscience

Research published in Scientific Reports suggests how you perceive the passage of time is related to the amount of new perceptual information you absorb. When you're young, so many things seem new, and your brain has more to process. That makes the passage of time feel longer; as you get older, relatively little seems new, which means your brain... See more

So here is the take-home lesson. We have to seek novelty, because this is what lays down new memories in the brain.