Dr. David Eagleman

I actually think this happens with drugs where people sometimes have the experience on marijuana where they think, wow, I've been standing here forever.

And it's because they're having a hard time

anchoring down on footage about like, when did I arrive to the kitchen?

When, what happened since I've been here?

And so they just, they don't know.

But anyway, the point is, sometimes people have this idea about time speeding up as you get older.

They say, well, you know, to an eight-year-old, a summer is this big fraction of their life.

But to a 50-year-old, it's a smaller fraction.

But I don't think that's it at all.

It's that

It's what you did this past weekend can make the weekend seem longer.

When it comes to some great new event like the birth of a child or a wedding or whatever it is, it has to do with how much attention you're paying and how much memory you're writing down.

And that means it is to some degree in our control if we really attend to things and write down memories instead of letting life just wash over us.

We can seem as though we've lived longer.

I'm not talking about longevity.

I'm just talking about seeming as though you've lived longer, which is, look, here's something that I try to do all the time is just switch stuff up.

For example, brushing your teeth with your other hand.

Not hard to do, but it's just one of a million ways of knocking yourself off a path.

One thing I try to do every time I drive home from Stanford is I try to take a different drive home, a different route home.

you know, wastes an extra minute, whatever.