Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies

similar comparison is offered in Figure 4.9. Animal tracks are usually overlooked, unless one makes a living as a tracker on a safari vehicle or as a hunter. Such occupations are rare these days, but as we will see in Chapter 9, the busy person interested in slowing down the flow of his mind time is well advised to look all around and observe the m

The “clock time” that unites all the live flow systems, animate and inanimate, is measurable. The day–night period lasts 24 hours on all the watches, wall clocks, and bell towers. Yet, physical time is not mind time. The time that you perceive is not the same as the time perceived by another. Why? Because the young mind receives more images during

The most common observations, the familiar and the nonthreatening, are questioned the least. This is why new questions in science are very rare.

connection between easy understanding and easily scanned (beautiful) images serves as the physical basis for cognition. Beauty continues to drive and improve cognition. It is precious and indispensable to life and industry, be it art or fashion.

In this book I ask why the mind “tries” to make sense of a new input. Why is there a natural tendency to organize the fresh input to make it fit among past receptions? The answer that comes from physics is one, and it is general: empowering the individual with speed and clarity of thought, understanding, decision making, and movement on the earth’s

The connection between beautiful images and ease of grasping and understanding serves as the basis for the brain design known as cognition. Beauty continues to drive and improve the cognition design. This is why art occurred to cavemen, and why it is now one of the most precious, expensive, and indispensable features of human life, from museums to

Time is slipping through our fingers and never comes back. It slips faster as we get older. Have you ever wondered why we feel this way?

Observe, learn, get inspired, and this way you hear your own calling. That is the secret to perennial happiness in creative work and the only path to silencing your judges. Make the effort.

Different does not mean unrelated. In this book I show that these two perceptions — the feeling that time accelerates with age, and the attraction of beauty — are both part of the same natural design, in accord with the constructal law1. They are an integral aspect of the human animal, striving to live and improve along the way. The perceptions of