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I love spending time with my kids for this. They see this detail and bring it to my attention. Often when they do I resolve to try to see as they do, but it's h

I love spending time with my kids for this. They see this detail and bring it to my attention. Often when they do I resolve to try to see as they do, but it's hard when you have seen most of "it" before. I envy them. This is also my theory on why "time flys by when you get older". We lack original experiences and so one day melds into the next. When each day is an adventure then of course it seems long.

dorfsmay 10y ago
I always assume that time flys by for adult because as we get older, a given unit of time is a decreasingly smaller percentage of our entire life. One year is 1% of a hundred year old person, one day is 50% of a 2 day old baby.
- piva00 10y ago
  I remember reading this in some article and also remember some kind of debunking of it from a neuroscientist. Tried to find both right now and wasn't really successful but stating it here so if anyone else want to give a shot finding them I know that they exist.
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  But the root cause of that is the same as for the effect described in the paper. As you're older, your mental machinery filters more.
eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>This is also my theory on why "time flys by when you get older". We lack original experiences and so one day melds into the next. When each day is an adventure then of course it seems long. See, that's just why you have to put effort into making sure you experience new and original things in life over time. If you make yourself do stuff, you can look back on even weekends and think, "Wow, a whole lot of time passed then!" In fact, let's see... * Friday night, went out to a new pub with fiancee. Great dinner and beer. * Saturday, particularly the afternoon: did some last-minute costume shopping with visiting friends, watched Futurama together in the evening, a proper New England thunderstorm finally hit our area for the first time in the summer. * Sunday: went swimming at the pool in the gym for the first time, fiancee was sad in the evening. * Yesterday: worked all day, got a kick to more responsibility dumped on me, went home and got incredibly frustrated with my side-project's precision numbers going down rather than up. Eventually derped around on internet for the evening, realized I was measuring the precision of the whole joint distribution rather than of single observables. * Today: talked to Chabadnik friend from grad-school, tested out measuring the precision of single features, at work now. Going to go swimming again tonight for exercise. Do stuff!
- branchless 10y ago
  Agreed. I've moved continents and I'm learning a new language, having had two kids (well my wife had them). I agree: do things. Let's see how you get on with a family :-)
matwood 10y ago
> We lack original experiences and so one day melds into the next. When each day is an adventure then of course it seems long. I also think adults have fewer major book end types experiences. As a kid I can bookend every year with summers off and out of school. College was similar, but I rarely took summers off so a lot of college is melded together. As an adult, there are fewer natural bookends. Marriage, kids, new job are obvious ones, but they are not every year and not everyone has them. I try to take 2 large vacations each year to new places. Doing this has slowed time down.
- branchless 10y ago
  Yes, had not thought of it like that before but it make sense. Similar to "a change is as good as a rest" although the summer holidays are a great rest!

dorfsmay 10y ago

I always assume that time flys by for adult because as we get older, a given unit of time is a decreasingly smaller percentage of our entire life. One year is 1% of a hundred year old person, one day is 50% of a 2 day old baby.

piva00 10y ago
I remember reading this in some article and also remember some kind of debunking of it from a neuroscientist. Tried to find both right now and wasn't really successful but stating it here so if anyone else want to give a shot finding them I know that they exist.
ArkyBeagle 10y ago
But the root cause of that is the same as for the effect described in the paper. As you're older, your mental machinery filters more.

eli_gottlieb 10y ago

>This is also my theory on why "time flys by when you get older". We lack original experiences and so one day melds into the next. When each day is an adventure then of course it seems long. See, that's just why you have to put effort into making sure you experience new and original things in life over time. If you make yourself do stuff, you can look back on even weekends and think, "Wow, a whole lot of time passed then!" In fact, let's see... * Friday night, went out to a new pub with fiancee. Great dinner and beer. * Saturday, particularly the afternoon: did some last-minute costume shopping with visiting friends, watched Futurama together in the evening, a proper New England thunderstorm finally hit our area for the first time in the summer. * Sunday: went swimming at the pool in the gym for the first time, fiancee was sad in the evening. * Yesterday: worked all day, got a kick to more responsibility dumped on me, went home and got incredibly frustrated with my side-project's precision numbers going down rather than up. Eventually derped around on internet for the evening, realized I was measuring the precision of the whole joint distribution rather than of single observables. * Today: talked to Chabadnik friend from grad-school, tested out measuring the precision of single features, at work now. Going to go swimming again tonight for exercise. Do stuff!

branchless 10y ago
Agreed. I've moved continents and I'm learning a new language, having had two kids (well my wife had them). I agree: do things. Let's see how you get on with a family :-)

matwood 10y ago

> We lack original experiences and so one day melds into the next. When each day is an adventure then of course it seems long. I also think adults have fewer major book end types experiences. As a kid I can bookend every year with summers off and out of school. College was similar, but I rarely took summers off so a lot of college is melded together. As an adult, there are fewer natural bookends. Marriage, kids, new job are obvious ones, but they are not every year and not everyone has them. I try to take 2 large vacations each year to new places. Doing this has slowed time down.

branchless 10y ago
Yes, had not thought of it like that before but it make sense. Similar to "a change is as good as a rest" although the summer holidays are a great rest!