We often rush, rush, complain about the lack of time and the inability to cope with it. And each of us has noticed that in childhood, time flowed much more slowly, and the older we get, the more it speeds up. The book by British writer Steve Taylor is an attempt to explain why we perceive time so differently in different periods.
We often rush, rush, complain about the lack of time and the inability to cope with it. And each of us has noticed that in childhood, time flowed much more slowly, and the older we get, the more it speeds up. The book by British writer Steve Taylor is an attempt to explain why we perceive time so differently in different periods. She answers questions that occupy everyone: why does the abundance of new impressions often seem to “stretch” time? Why does time fly when we are having fun, and barely crawl when we are bored or anxious? And why does it slow down dramatically or disappear altogether in emergency situations? The author formulates five laws of psychological time, talks about the perception of time in other cultures and convincingly shows that we can learn to control the flow of time. “In fact, we can expand time by changing our perception so that it feels like it is longer,” says Taylor, and gives a lot of good advice to those who want to learn how to “expand time from within”, slow it down and even go beyond it.
Alpina non-fiction, 256 p.