tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1542636572353476106.post7823343682129391089..comments2023-06-02T07:38:26.375-07:00Comments on Bats in the Belfry, Cats in the Attic: Birthday Reflections and UpdateOddGhoulOuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18418482960938732738noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1542636572353476106.post-49924584071741636972013-11-17T07:01:49.871-08:002013-11-17T07:01:49.871-08:00What you say makes a lot of sense. Time does pass ...What you say makes a lot of sense. Time does pass a lot faster, and I have heard before that it's due to our cognitive processes. You are very insightful! Thank you.OddGhoulOuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18418482960938732738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1542636572353476106.post-67896415262752259682013-11-16T20:19:56.203-08:002013-11-16T20:19:56.203-08:00That's cool, you're cool.
Volunteering is...That's cool, you're cool.<br /><br />Volunteering is probably a good idea. There is definitely a temporal acceleration going on, that you only begin to really notice in your mid-20's or so. Time passes faster and Faster. Soon it will be passing too fast.<br /><br />I suspect that this has to do with the exponential improvement of cognitive functions in adults. As your brain gets faster and more efficient at processing sensory data and filing it away, and you develop more and more ingrained models of how to do things, you don't have to pay as much attention to your surroundings nor expend as much time figuring stuff out as you did when you were younger, and this causes time to feel like it's passing faster and faster. It also causes you to live, increasingly, up in your head thinking about things instead of observing them.<br /><br />A couple activities seem to slow this process of temporal acceleration: Doing new things that you aren't familiar with; interacting with people, and understanding THEIR cognitive processes, which are different from your own; and traveling to new places and doing new things that you aren't used to doing.<br /><br />So, this is my advice to you as a young person (I am 30 this year), is to ignore what people may be telling you about your future, the need for education and a career. If you want to be happy in your future, ignore that stuff and do things that you enjoy doing, do them very well, and always negotiate yourself into a position where you get to do new things in new places, and most important always put an emphasis on other people, learning about them, and developing your empathetic abilities. The last is probably the most important one.<br /><br />Anyhow, that's my slightly off-topic advice on the subject?Mantan Calaverashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01024705691966479703noreply@blogger.com