Want to Feel You're Living a Longer, Fuller Life? Neuroscience Says Making Denser Memories Is the Best Way to Slow the Passage of Time
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Want to Feel You're Living a Longer, Fuller Life? Neuroscience Says Making Denser Memories Is the Best Way to Slow the Passage of Time
The reason my life has seemed to speed up as I’ve gotten older is that there were more and more moments when I wasn’t available. Enough moments like that in a day and the day is over, without any new thing to remember. Enough days like that, and the week has gone by, then the month, then my life.
Rachel Neumann • Not Quite Nirvana: A Skeptic's Journey to Mindfulness
He recommends using mindfulness to help savour leisure experiences. “It expands your subjective perception of time (i.e., you feel like you have more of it) and enhances memory formation, which means you’ll not only feel like your vacations lasted longer, but you’ll remember them a lot better.”
bbc • The way we view free time is making us less happy
That’s why it’s important to change routines regularly, and take vacations to exotic locales, and have as many new experiences as possible that can serve to anchor our memories. Creating new memories stretches out psychological time, and lengthens our perception of our lives.
Joshua Foer • Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
I imagine that anyone who lives a long life might draw similar conclusions about what is and isn’t important, and I feel that it is a gift to have been given this perspective at a relatively young age. Ultimately, by reading every issue of TIME I learned the value of time, which is, by far, our most precious commodity.