tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post2638539643719572932..comments2024-02-09T12:12:37.636-08:00Comments on best minimum wage job a middle aged guy ever had: Time Slowing Formula .Duncan McGearyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02857388833850939721noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-46753503763938038292008-07-16T17:24:00.000-07:002008-07-16T17:24:00.000-07:00I think part of it is just perception. When you a...I think part of it is just perception. When you are 10 years old, a year would be 10 percent of your life to date. When you are 50 a year is 2% of your experiences. As such I would expect that the perception of the passage of time has as more to do with age, memory, etc. then it does with any specifc activity or how busy we are. Being busy might impact how fast we feel time is passing at a particular instance, but when one looks in general at how fast a year seems to have gone buy, that I think is more related to age, memories, etc.<BR/><BR/>That change in perception as we age seems to be pretty consistent across the population.RDChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13033979029490801023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-529575095156315075.post-38633329071360870592008-07-16T11:13:00.000-07:002008-07-16T11:13:00.000-07:00"When I was a kid, the summer seemed endless."Ain'..."When I was a kid, the summer seemed endless."<BR/><BR/>Ain't that the truth. When I was a kid the seasons and years went by very slowly and the days went by in a blink. Now it's just the opposite.<BR/><BR/>I think overcrowding your days with activities and "busy-ness" makes time "speed up." One reason the years and seasons seemed long when we were kids might have been that we had a lot of free time. (Not so true of today's kids, unfortunately -- they seem to have every minute of their lives scheduled.) We were able to (more or less) do what we wanted to do when we wanted to do it, especially when school was out.<BR/><BR/>"I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass." -- Walt WhitmanH. Bruce Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14613347512240617956noreply@blogger.com