Why does time seem to go faster as we get older?
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Because each moment (whether a minute or a year or a decade) makes up a smaller and smaller proportion of our past as we age. To a teenager, a year is unbelievably long, a significant amount of time. To a retiree, it is barely more than a blink of the eye.
Answer: “Time speeds up as you get older, because when you’re a year old, that year is a hundred percent of your perception of time, but as you get older, that year is a smaller fraction of the time you’ve experienced.”
George Nakai, *Beef*
Answer: “Time speeds up as you get older, because when you’re a year old, that year is a hundred percent of your perception of time, but as you get older, that year is a smaller fraction of the time you’ve experienced.”
George Nakai, *Beef*
I think it’s basically the ratio of time passed to cumulative time passed.
1 year to a 10 year old is a lot longer relatively than 1 year to 60 year old.
[vsauce](https://youtu.be/zHL9GP_B30E?si=lKpo69WkPlPp_3rk) made a video about this.
Because you’ve automated so much of your life through the subconscious creation and acting out of habits that you’re not as present.
Proportionately, time changes in scale.
For a five year old kid, their next birthday is another 20% of their entire life.
For a 50 year old adult, their next birthday is just another 2% of their life.
I think it’s basically the ratio of time passed to cumulative time passed.
1 year to a 10 year old is a lot longer relatively than 1 year to 60 year old.
Because you’ve automated so much of your life through the subconscious creation and acting out of habits that you’re not as present.
I feel as you get older your life becomes more repetitive and if there are no new and exciting memories then your memory just kind of blanks it out (working 9-5 job). When you are constantly going on trips, doing different activities etc. then you feel like you did a lot more because you did.
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