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Understand the future
Many of us think of our past as a kind of a video library where we can look at records of our lives. If memories were fixed like videotapes, you would find it difficult to imagine a new situation.
It is our past memories that help us imagine a future, and to preview future events. This skill of using the past to predict the future helps us try out different hypothetical scenarios before we commit.
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Camille A.
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Bilinguals
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Time Perception
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Flexible Brain Shifting
Studies on Bilinguals prove that language can affect our most basic senses, our time perception, visual perception, and our emotions.
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Brantley
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How to Slow Down Time
Our perception of time is subjective
How long an hour, a week, or a year feels is something that changes all the time.
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Why early years seem longer
- As we become adults, we tend to take on more time commitments. As our work and domestic lives stabilize, the years increasingly resemble each other. This creates the sense that less “living” happens each year.
- Children usually have no time commitments; they're told what to do. They also form higher-quality memories (sharper and more lasting), making early years seem so full.
Being present in the moment
- As adults, we spend much of the time on autopilot, with most of our attention on past, future, or hypothetical moments.
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Phane Ahd
@phaneahd
past, a curse or blessing?
Is past a curse or blessing?
- Past is a memory that is gone in time
- But we only remember or our mind will only remind us of moments that brought us tremendous joy or terrible misery.
- Some people take positi...
- Past is not a burden, but a learning curve.
- Mistakes are not be repeated but rectified.
- We can only do that if we believe "whatever has to happen will happen, yet life must...
- Past is not a burden, but a learning curve.
- Mistakes are not be repeated but rectified.
- We can only do that if we believe "whatever has to happen will happen, yet life must go on"
- Everyone is living a life which some else wishes they could live.
- Make most of it, “past is not a curse but a blessing” to make things right the next time.
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