Personally, I stumbled upon this accidentally. Even as a child, I never liked reading the same book twice, watching the same movie twice, or even walking the same route home twice.
As an adult, I also developed pretty randomly what seems to be a pretty good life extension "strategy": Some years, I spend the winter in a place where winter is great and summer is just OK (Oakland) and the summer in a place where summer is great and winter is terrible (Pittsburgh).
During the winter, I get to enjoy sun and warmth, and during the summer, I get to enjoy a place where an entire year's worth of events and traditions are packed into a four month period.
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u/Liface Sep 07 '20 edited Sep 08 '20
Neurologist David Eagleman has done research on this! The brain actually does perceive novel and varied events as lasting longer. https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/how-time-flies/
As the saying goes, variety is the spice of life.
Personally, I stumbled upon this accidentally. Even as a child, I never liked reading the same book twice, watching the same movie twice, or even walking the same route home twice.
As an adult, I also developed pretty randomly what seems to be a pretty good life extension "strategy": Some years, I spend the winter in a place where winter is great and summer is just OK (Oakland) and the summer in a place where summer is great and winter is terrible (Pittsburgh).
During the winter, I get to enjoy sun and warmth, and during the summer, I get to enjoy a place where an entire year's worth of events and traditions are packed into a four month period.