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The Secret to Extending Your Life

by Sueños on 01/05/17

The secret to everlasting life has been sought after since the time of alchemists. Although I don't have any idea how to help you live forever, I've come across something to help you feel very similar. The first premise of this argument is supported by a really interactive timeline made by Maximilian Kiener. It deals with how we experience time as we get older. You see, as we get older we perceive time as passing faster, because the moment we are experiencing makes up a smaller portion of our overall life. That's why as a kid we remember the summers being longer, and waiting for 24 days for Santa seemed like an eternity.


Something that may add to this is how we perceive time as related to the novelty of a stimulus. This was explored in an experiment by William J. Matthews in which an image was shown for 506 milliseconds, and then a comparison image was displayed for either 306 or 706. The subjects then had to say whether or not the comparison image lasted longer or was shorter than the original image. Upon repeat trials the subjects claimed that the comparison images lasted shorter than the original stimulus, even though they lasted the same length. What this boils down to, is the more often we experience something, the shorter we perceive its duration.

So, the secret then to extending our lives, or at least how long we perceive them to be, is to have as many novel experiences as possible. In short -- get lost. Try a new coffee shop instead of the one you always go to on your way to work. Try taking a different route on the way to a friend's house. What I encourage in all of my clients is to constantly be learning something new, even if it isn't directly related to work. Having novel experiences enriches your life, and breaks up the mundane nature of the wake up, work, sleep, repeat.

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