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great article! one interesting thing i've found is that the higher the suffering, the more fondly i look back at the event/time period and overcoming it. the i
by maximente 6y ago
great article!
one interesting thing i've found is that the higher the suffering, the more fondly i look back at the event/time period and overcoming it. the inverse also seems weakly true - i'm not very proud of periods i've spent coasting in life.
second, it seems to create a fraternizing effect - i seem to also recall fondly the people with whom i shared the suffering. perhaps this explains some of the military people reflecting back fondly on times of truly intense suffering.
- ehnto 6y agoPart of the ability to look back fondly may be the higher intensity of experience packed into shorter time than when you coasted. Check out the Long Short, Short Long time phenomenon. The short period of intense experience later feels like a much larger period of time, and the long period of monotony later recalls as a very short inconsequential moment in time. For example, the 24 hour flight to your holiday destination will compress into a very short unimportant memory where the holiday itself will recall as if it were a much longer period of time than it was.
- jodrellblank 6y agoVSauce tells me there is a newer emerging Short/Short time phenomenon of interacting with screens and watching TV and using social media; it seems like a short time when it's happening and seems like a short time reflecting back on it.