Comments on: Why time flies

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:46:34 +0000

Have you read Internal Time? Some of the anecdotes are a little contrived, but the baseline information on how people interact with day/night cycles is fascinating.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 13:44:39 +0000

I enjoyed Timeshifting: Creating More Time to Enjoy Your Life, by Stephan Rechtschaffen, M.D. when I read it a few years ago.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:28:59 +0000

In reply to ARC. Very intriguing ideas! I think I'm somewhere in the middle. Lately I've been feeling like I need one entire weekend day at home and that's just not happening for a bit, but it's due to fun things so I'm trying to embrace it.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:26:51 +0000

In reply to lauravanderkam.

I agree that Overwhelmed was hard to stomach at times–the stereotype bothered me and reading about the craziness of her life stressed me out. The other part that bothered me was that I felt like her husband was very unhelpful, and that’s another stereotype I’m really sick of. I know we only saw a part of of what he does/doesn’t do and so it wasn’t a complete or fair representation, but still. At the same time, she’s a grown woman–if he’s taking time for himself, so should she.

By: Francis Wade

Francis Wade — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:10:15 +0000

I recently wrote a long paper titled “Can Time Be Managed?” which turned out to be more challenging than I originally imagined. Hacking through the work of philosophers, physicists and psychologists I wrote an excerpt of some of the ideas here – https://medium.com/@fwade/is-time-management-really-real-or-is-it-just-a-misnomer-8bdf77c2390f The upshot? Time is actually a “psychological object.”

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 17:52:48 +0000

For sure Senaca On The Shortness of Life I Also found Viktor Frankel’s observations on provisional existence helpful in Man’s Search for Meaning (the problem of directionlessness).

By: ARC

ARC — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 00:13:43 +0000

In reply to jennie.

ooh, this is intriguing. I think I’m the same as your husband – even in a week where I’ve got multiple fun things planned, at some point it makes me feel harried and rushed even though they’re things I enjoyed and the week goes by in a blur. I think I need large spaces of unclaimed time to feel like I have a lot of it 🙂

By: Gwyneth

Gwyneth — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 16:42:18 +0000

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel chronicles (so to speak) how a clockmaker eventually (after 40 years) triumphed over astronomers to win the cash prize offered by Parliament in the 18th century to anyone who could devise a more accurate means of measuring longitude at sea.

By: jennie

jennie — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 16:03:36 +0000

I think sometimes “time” is felt very differently by what we want out of it. I tend to be an experience seeker and if I do not experience novelty regularly I become depressed and feel that time is fleeting by. My husband, on the hand, enjoys monotony and routine. If he has too much novelty thrown into his life, his sense of time speeds up. A good week for me would include normal work and childcare, but at least 2 or 3 novel experiences such as a new restaurant, a new book, or music, an interesting play, or even a conversation with someone I don’t normally talk too. This “slows” my time down. My husband would feel this the opposite.

By: lauravanderkam

lauravanderkam — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:01:03 +0000

In reply to Vitaliy Kolos. @Vitaliy- I'm not sure I'd want to set an iPhone alarm to remind me of the time, but I've found that tracking my time does the same thing. Every time I open the spreadsheet and write down what I'm doing, I'm reminded of time and how I am spending it. I find it really does help with mindfulness.