Stop Wasting Your Life

[Music] it's a regular Tuesday evening you're on your way home from work sat in the regular rush hour traffic it's been a rough day at work you can't wait to get home put your feet up and finally watch that episode that's it do you ever feel that life is slipping away like time is just merging into a blur I mean when we were kids time felt infinite like we had too much it but now you'll just be sat in traffic one day and thinking where did the last 10 years go now hopefully you don't waste

your life like that because you never know today could be that day whether you like to admit it or not we only have a certain amount of time here on Earth so we really can't afford to just let it pass by and we all know this yet none of us know where the Last 5 Years went so this is how to not waste your [Music] life during our childhood it felt like we had unlimited time like each day would go by so slow but as we got older time would go by faster than ever before

days would blur into weeks weeks into months months into years 1 minute it's January and you're planning your goals for the year the next minute it's July and you've not done anything but time is moving at the same Pace it's moved our entire life why does it feel faster now what changed well there's actually a pretty solid answer to that question perceptions one year to a 4-year-old is a quarter of their life whereas that same year to a 40-year-old is only 2.5% of their life so to The 40-Year-Old one year seems a lot shorter and

flies by way faster but there's not really anything we can do about that right time isn't what we once thought it was we're not passively tracking the river of time but instead the brain is actively constructing it that's David Eagleman a neuroscientist and the work Eagleman has done over the last decade has ultimately led to One Singular Theory the time perception theory in short time isn't a subjective experience how we experience time ultimately depends on how our brain perceives it the there's no one set pace of time like if you've ever been in a bad

situation and the time slows down when everything feels like slow motion that's actually time slowing down for you so what can we do with this information novelty is the reason your childhood felt like it lasted forever like it was a different life you live because when we were younger everything we experienced was novel new to us yet now our day-to-day lives have become so repetitive and routine which in a way isn't a bad thing but they've lost their novelty which is why it feels like one big blur so simply try to introduce it back into

your life for the next 30 days whenever the opportunity arises actively try to be as spontaneous and novel as possible it could be as little as speaking to someone new at the gym going to a new coffee shop or as big as moving to a different city give your brain new things to do because this is it this is your life you may as well experience everything it has to offer [Music] don't most people run away from this or try to pretend that it's not there but the truth is we only have a certain amount

of time before that day comes if you're looking to actually live your life and not waste it you need to understand that fully not just you but everyone around you that day is coming now that day could be next year it could be next week nobody knows so with the time you've got left try to make decisions with that in the back of your mind live every day like it's your last day on Earth which I know sounds obvious and overs said but do you live like that because if you did you sure as hell

wouldn't be watching a video about wasting time so put down your phone and go and live your life make the most out of it while you still can experience new things and appreciate each and every moment you get then hopefully in 60 years time you can say I didn't waste my life [Music]