- 07 Dec, 2025 *
Have you ever wondered why you often can’t recall what you did in a random workday but you can pinpoint the name of the random bistro where you had lunch on a trip last year?
There are activities that make time feel more detailed. I like to think of it as if they activate a mode where my mind is able to capture more frames per second. Conversely, when you are on a hard routine for a long time your mind will skip frames, as the next one is highly predictable based on recent history so it won’t miss much information anyway.
It is important to identify activities that enable this higher perception mode, as they are not the same for everyone. Time in nature, s…
- 07 Dec, 2025 *
Have you ever wondered why you often can’t recall what you did in a random workday but you can pinpoint the name of the random bistro where you had lunch on a trip last year?
There are activities that make time feel more detailed. I like to think of it as if they activate a mode where my mind is able to capture more frames per second. Conversely, when you are on a hard routine for a long time your mind will skip frames, as the next one is highly predictable based on recent history so it won’t miss much information anyway.
It is important to identify activities that enable this higher perception mode, as they are not the same for everyone. Time in nature, solo travel, a weekend with that group of friends you only catch up with once a year but tell stories about it for the entire following year. Those are a few that make it for me.
You don’t need to remove all non-qualifying activities from your life – and you probably can’t afford to anyway. But you can trick your mind by interweaving them intentionally into your routines so that it can’t switch to frame-skipping mode.
Not a philosophy, just a small thought on how to design your life.
Keep surprising yourself.