the paradox of perceived duration
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a blog post by Brennan Colberg
Brennan Colberg's... writing The paradox of perceived duration published on May 3, 2022 Time feels both short and long, in the moment and in hindsight. It always seems short on one scale, and long in the other. Either the days fly by, or the months do. Well-spent days are ephemeral, but stretch on endlessly in the rear-view mirror; wasted hours seem to drag on forever, but hardly make any memories. This is because we don’t understand the length of a span of time directly; we think of times as “short” or “long” based on what we perceive as happening…
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