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Feb 9, 2018
"The moment is not properly an atom of time but an atom of eternity." --Kierkegaard
How Our Social Interactions Shape Our Experience of Time
Maria Popova tells us that our experience of time has a central social component -- an internal clock inheres in our capacity for inter-subjectivity, intuitively governing our social interactions and the interpersonal mirroring that undergirds the human capacity for empathy. This social-synchronistic function of time is what New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick examines in Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation -- a layered, rigorously researched, lyrically narrated inquiry into the most befuddling dimension of existence. Read what Burdick and several philosophers say about time
BE THE CHANGE
Notice in your day when time moves slowly, when quickly. Can you make it go faster by listening to others more carefully, or following your breathing?
