Time is Speeding Up
I can’t prove it, but your fragmented attention is stealing decades of your life. Many people feel this intuitively. My lived experiences from 8-18 years old feel much slower, fuller and richer than my lived experiences from 18-28 years old. We are constantly flooded with notifications and information, but we are not talking enough about how it’s getting more addicting and invasive year over year. It takes your brain about 23 seconds to fully engage with any new piece of information, but the average person switches attention on their phone every 6-8 seconds. ...