How do we slow time down?

[highland145]

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[disappoint]

How do we slow time down?

You can change your perception of time. Stare at a clock intently. Time will seem to pass more slowly.

It's like the old saying "A watched pot never boils." If you focus on it waiting for it, it seems to take longer. The actual passage of time doesn't change from that of course.

It's the opposite of what happens when you focus on other things, time seems to pass by faster.

 

[shortylickens]

Work at a job you really hate. ... And smoke weed.

The plot of Waiting.....

 

[Pick2]

Time flies when you're having FUN !!!
So Live a more boring life ?

 

[ch33zw1z]

https://youtu.be/XB_0gVcLCJo

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

We can't stop time. Can we?

Guy, are you just surfing around on page 3-4 and bumping random threads?

 

[purbeast0]

and on a work relative time frame. Same works for vacation. Two weeks of Vacation feels like a normal weekend. Some weeks it feels like you have 4 wednesdays but a 2 day weekend feels like 4 hours

That's only true about vacation if you hardly take them. That's why I try to take 4-6 a year. They always go by at "normal" speed now because while I'm anticipating them and excited about them, I'm not looking forward to them for a whole year or more out.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's only true about vacation if you hardly take them. That's why I try to take 4-6 a year. They always go by at "normal" speed now because while I'm anticipating them and excited about them, I'm not looking forward to them for a whole year or more out.

That's what I love about my job, it's shift work, so I get random days off/vacation. Every now and then I even get like 10 days off in a row, if the schedule just falls that way. So I don't have to only count on my vacation time. Speaking of which, I'm up to 4 weeks per year now, since I hit my 10 year anniversary. Crazy how time flies once you're out of school.

Downside is that summer tends to be super packed as that's when everyone takes their vacation as there's no reason to take it any other time give all the time off we get, so in summer, if you're not on vacation chances are good you're working. But guess that goes for any other job, so we're still spoiled with shift work. Lot of our summer hours is OT so that's nice too. I would hate going back to a 8-5 grind again. 2 day weekends are just not long enough.

 

[SeductivePig]

I've always believed that time goes by fast because you follow a routine, and because there isn't much variance in your life.

Take me for example - I've been at the same company for five years now. Been in the same city for five years, known the same people. It seemed to have passed by way too fast.

On the other hand, a friend of mine has been working for 6 years, but he has worked at four different companies in different industries (IT, management consulting, tech). He has lived in New Jersey, NYC, London, San Francisco, and now Seattle. His six years must have felt incredibly long.

Why? Because of variance. Because every day is new. Because there is no standard long term routine.

Problem with most people is that they get into a strict routine. Everything goes into autopilot. There are few to no new experiences.

 

[Mai72]

There is a short book that I read a while back called "The shortness of life" by Seneca.

"Life is long enough and a sufficient amount has been given to you for the highest achievements if your time is well invested. But, when it is wasted in hedonist luxury spent on no good activity we are forced at death to realize that it has passed away. We are not given a short life but we make it short. We waste time." ~Seneca

Seneca practiced stoicism. Instead of being unconscious of the passage of time we should be conscious that life is really short.