Quotations

"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial." Arthur Schopenhauer, he who, enraged at her talking loudly outside his door,  threw his landlady down the stairs and broke her back.

"No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic." A. J. P. Taylor

"We've had more immigration to Britain in the last 20 years than in the last 2,000 years." Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, the expert on royal families, a nice man whom I know.

George Mack

@george__mack

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When you’re 5 years old, a year is 20% of your life. And when you’re 50 years old, a year is 2% of your life. This is an explanation given why time speeds up as you age. It's called Janet's law. It states you’ve experienced roughly half of your perceived by life by 20 years old. Or to put it another way: A summer holiday for a 5 year old feels as long as the 10 years from 40 to 50 years old. But Janet's law can be broken with high agency. You have agency over the speed time. You're not a passive victim. A better explanation of why time speeds up as you age is because you have fewer new experiences as an adult, so your brain deletes the memories. If you take agency over your life, do new things and create memory dividends, time slows down. If you live your life on autopilot, you may die at 80, but feel like you died at 20 years old. If you take agency over your life, you may diet at 80, but feel like you died at 200 years old.

I worked this out when I was 13 but when I came to live in Romania days sped past because I was doing work I loved but yet time slowed down because everything was so strange to me and I was learning so much.