Breaking routine sounds exhausting and unsustainable, a classic individualist falicy. I feel like getting more sleep and doing fewer stimulants (caffeine) is the type of advice this audience actually needs.
How can you make subjective time go slower?
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#52Sit at home and wait for covid19 to pass.
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#53An individual's peak alpha frequency can determine whether two closely spaced flashes of light will be viewed as a single flash. People with faster IPA (individual Peak Alpha) have a faster frame-rate, a faster sampling frequency [1]. In principle, one might use TACS (transcranial alternating current stimulation) or other rhythmic stimuli to entrain IAP and boost one's frame rate. Present work shows that TACS can low…
Or use neuralink Prediction: Pro gamers will soon need to be divided between normal and “implant enchanced” categories in leagues
Are there any kind of enhancements that are currently illegal in competitive gaming, such as banned substances?
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#54Inspiring article. Just cancelled the apartment and closed the company to get some novelty in my life.
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#55I used to think that novelty the key to making time go slow, I now think there is a limit to this. I've had a couple jobs that are absolutely filled with novelty, where every day is pretty different from the last. At some point, it becomes a bit of a vortex. I know I've done a lot, but damned if I can actually remember it at the end of the day. This also happened to me when spending six weeks backpacking in Europe. A…
Yeah, in other words you need to be regularly on and off in order to better enjoy the time when you are off.
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#56I have independently 'discovered' the relation between novelty, the momentary feeling of time passing and the retrospective feeling of time passed when I was a teenager.
They go in opposite directions:
- novelty -> time flies in the moment but seems much expanded when you remember it
- boring and repetitive activity -> time seems to crawl in the moment but in memory it seems to vanish
Another way to increase the subjective feeling of time is to be a parent.
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#57There is something more to be said for the premium we put on time. We've adopted apt phrases like time is money. And it tends to be described with words like priceless, valuable, precious.
The relationship we've created with time makes us want to rush through things quickly. This is where the "time flies" feeling can come from. It actually makes us less resourceful and less productive. By placing less of a premium on time we widen our options in all things - life and work included.
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#58"Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years." Catch-22 The full quote is worth your while: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/496826-dunbar-loved-shootin...
This story made me think of the joke about the guy who was told by his doctor that he has only 6 months to live. He decides to move in with his mother-in-law, because living with her for 6 months will seem like forever.
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#59Another vote for novelty. When I met my wife, she was pushing us to do new things all the time. It seemed like every day we would try a new cafe, a new restaurant, see a new part of town, explore a new trail... There was a 6 month period that felt like it could have been years.
Since moving to the valley and getting absorbed in work, we've stopped doing things. We'll try a new restaurant every week, and maybe go on a day trip every few months. We're coming up on our two year anniversary of moving here and frankly I feel like we could just move on and forget the entire chapter of our life. The last two years feel like 6 months, and that's only because we got married last year and took a week long honeymoon.
If I look back through my photo album, there is a startling difference in the number of pictures I've taken too. I've started forcing myself to just take random pictures now and then just so I don't end up without a record of this time in my life.
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#60I'm not sure how they do it, but somehow this happens as soon as I arrive at the office!