2/ when you're five years old and every day is a new adventure - a new cartoon on TV, a new puddle to splash in, a new food you've never heard of, 10 new words, a bird in the sky unlike any you've seen before each day lasts a decade
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3/ when you're 40 something and spend 900 days in a row wake-up-coffee-commute-work-fix-bug-go-home-flip-on-tv-watch-HBO-oh-its-bedtime-lather-rinse-repeat each day lasts 15 minutes, and 900 days in a row feel like just 10 or 12
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4/ My 7.25 years on the farm have subjectively lasted perhaps twice that long there's so much to do, and a lot of novelty, and I'm newly revealed as incompetent in a dozen new things per week
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5/ I released my first novels, what, 9, 10, 11 years back? No. The books shipped less than 4 years ago. In between I've been logging trees, fighting the town zoning board, killing knotweed, planning a cider orchard, butchering pigs, burning slash piles, and more.
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6/ If you want to live [ subjectively ] longer, add novelty to your life.
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Yep: http://lemmalab.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/2018/Why_life_speeds_up_Landau_S&I_2017.pdf … If your life consists entirely of the same routine every day, your brain will compress it all down and upon recall, it seems to 'run together' with no recollection of some days at all. Novelty forces you to create distinct memories of full events.
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Even taking a different way home once in awhile helps with this.https://youtu.be/LPRrHyXchEY
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Definitely. I had a decade that slipped away without a trace, but I also spent a few months in Africa that seem like years to me now.
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