John
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John
I heard something really depressing Sam Altman said a few years ago:
"Adjusted for the subjective increase in how fast time passes, life is half over by 23 or 24".
I've been thinking about more and more ways to slow it down and enjoy every moment.
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GREG ISENBERGx.comWilliam James speculated that subjective time was measured in novel experiences, which become rarer as you get older. Perhaps life is lived on a logarithmic time scale, compressed toward the end.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
When you get older, time flies by, forgotten, because you’re not having as many new experiences.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
not a hot take: most of you feel like life peaked in intensity before 21.
but here’s what’s actually happening, your brain compresses repetitive data.
Childhood = constant new input.
Adulthood = routines, copy-paste days, less novelty.
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Francielle Dellamorax.comRecently learned our second half of life feels faster because we experience less things “for the first time”.
60% of our days are spent in habit loops / auto-pilot.
Determined to seek out and soak in new experiences.
Amanda Goetzx.comA comfortable, certain, and tracked-out existence is necessarily one of little vitality and low growth. This is a key reason to quit especially “good” jobs where you have become comfortable.
palladiummag.com • Quit Your Job
Meaninglessness is boring. Boredom can be described as a meaning withdrawal, in analogy with drug withdrawal, as a discomfort that tells us that our need for meaning is not being met.
Lars Svendsen • Being bored
Boredom, that yearning for stimulation and distraction, for something to pass the time, is simply how we experience any pause in the program of control that seeks to deny pain.