Long Days, Short Years
Why time speeds up when nothing goes wrongBy Adam Vesey
Length4h 32m
About this audiobook
Ask how the last five years went and you will hear gone. Ask how today is going and you will hear normal.
Both answers are correct. If time were speeding up, this afternoon would be racing, and it is not. Nothing has happened to your time. Something has happened to the record.
You have two clocks. One measures the hour you are in and runs on attention. The other measures the year behind you and runs on memory, and it counts differences rather than hours. A week you cannot tell apart from forty others takes up almost no space, so it is not there when you look back. It did not go quickly. It never got written down.
The things that erase your years are not distraction or your phone. They are competence. Routine. A house you know in the dark. Everything you spent your thirties building on purpose.
Long Days, Short Years explains what happened to the decade you cannot find, and what to do about the one still coming, without dismantling a life that works
Audiobook details
GenrePsychology, Self-Help
Length4 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue. The photograph you cannot place
2PART I. TWO CLOCKS
3Chapter 1. The days are long and the years are short
4Chapter 2. The proportional theory, and where it breaks
5Chapter 3. The holiday paradox
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6Chapter 4. Why the drive home is shorter
7Chapter 5. What memory is actually for
8PART II. WHAT EATS THE YEARS
9Chapter 6. Competence
10Chapter 7. The commute you cannot remember
11Chapter 8. The reminiscence bump
12Chapter 9. The long summer
13Chapter 10. Repetition and the collapse of the similar
14Chapter 11. The settled life
15Chapter 12. The years you would not want back
16PART III. MAKING THE YEARS FINDABLE
17Chapter 13. Markers, not experiences
18Chapter 14. First times you can still have
19Chapter 15. Deliberate friction
20Chapter 16. Writing it down
21Chapter 17. Photographs, and what they replace
22Chapter 18. The people who were there
23PART IV. WHAT THE TIME IS FOR
24Chapter 19. Compression as a measure
25Chapter 20. Long days
26Conclusion. Where the years went
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