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So it can be very satisfying to try to put it all together, by embracing all that humanity but also understanding it from a bigger perspective. Like many people who were born with an engineering side to their brains, I sometimes feel like I’m standing with half my body outside of the human species, observing with Vulcan-like amusement how crazy we all are, and the other half firmly inside it, being whipped around by all the same joyful and tumultuous and passionate and irrational emotions as everyone else. It was exactly what I was looking for at the time: a bigger picture on why our brains behave the way they do in many different realms of being alive: emotions, decision making, happiness, and of course our perception of time. The key to this is in the way we perceive the passage of time.įigure 1: Some of Eagleman’s Intriguing Books I’ve read (click for more.)Ī few years ago, I stumbled upon the work of the modern-day Indiana Jones neuroscientist/author/adventurer David Eagleman, immediately developed a Man Crush and started working my way through his books and interviews. And there is some real science that connects a Mustachian Early Retirement to a life that feels much longer and more full, even before we get into the reasons you will probably literally live quite a bit longer as well. What do you think could be going on here?Īs it turns out, I am not the first one to wonder this. So if I feel like I’ve already had a spectacular amount of time and Made the Most of It, you can imagine how lucky I feel to still have so many more decades worth of it potentially still in the tank! After all, if we are going to assign any purpose to our lives, it’s probably something like “Make the most of the time you are here, and try to do some good while you’re at it.” I look at this strange development with great gratitude. Reflecting back on it all always leaves me shaking my head in a smiling disbelief and muttering at least one involuntary “ Holy Shit.” I feel like I have lived an entire human lifetime, or maybe even more than one, in just the years since I hung up the keyboard and walked out of that cubicle. Adventures in business, travel, relationships, weddings, funerals, adventures, injuries, growth, definitely at least the recommended minimum dose of pain, but a much bigger amount of joy. While other parents of almost-thirteen-year-olds claim the time has gone by in a flash, I feel I’ve had my own son for at least 30 years.Īnd those same thirteen years since I retired from real work have also been packed with an almost inconceivable variety of experience. The Inevitability of Life Racing By.īecause somehow, I seem to have stumbled upon a workaround to the problem of life being too short, and instead I find myself existing in a different universe of Vampire-like perpetual renewal and the feeling of youth. And if you’re younger, you may have felt fear well up in your heart as your elders dropped this bit of Bummer Wisdom upon you.
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If you’re part of the older and wiser population, you may have even spoken similar words yourself. We’ve all heard these thoughts, often from the parents of grown children. “You can’t slow down time, so treasure your days because they’ll be gone before you know it.” “The older you get, the faster time flies.”