
Why Life Seems to Speed Up as We Age
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Veritasium explores why time seems to speed up as we age, covering chronoception and several competing explanations beyond the common proportional-theory argument.
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Here's the video from Veritasium around same topic [VIDEO] Video explains it in detail about why this happens.
Read original comment ↗There is a good video by Veritasium on this topic titled - "Why life seems to speed up as we age" [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗That's a common argument. Veritasium explores this and IMO the alternative arguments are more compelling: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗This effect is very interesting. Veritasium covered this effect in a video [1] for the interested. [1]: [VIDEO] (2016)
Read original comment ↗Veritasium has a video about this subject: [VIDEO] It turns out that when we're older time passes more quickly even on the scale of minutes.
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