Jay Shetty

And so I don't want you to accept something just because it's what you've got used to.

Here's the first thing I want to talk about.

Time is not what you think.

Most people think time is unlimited.

Psychologists call this time optimism, the belief that we'll always have more time later.

But studies show that once people pass their mid-30s, time is experienced exponentially faster.

Not because clocks change, but because novelty disappears.

When days look the same, the brain compresses memory.

That's why childhood felt endless and the last five years feel like a blur.

I think about it all the time.

I find that being so true that as I get older, time moves faster.

Time feels like it's speeding away.

Every year feels faster.

I can't believe we're in 2026.

The pandemic feels like yesterday.

2016, when we've been posting everything that we were all doing 10 years ago, feels like yesterday in one sense.

But time has moved so much faster.

When asked what surprised him most about humanity, the Buddha responded, we think we have time.

Now, I don't want to be morbid.

I want to be really realistic about this.