People can be led to second-guess themselves when information presented to them differs slightly, in conceivable ways, from their expectations or beliefs. It’s straight-forward to state that the likelihood of second-guessing one’s self grows with the region of overlap between what one had held to be true and the new information.* And for anyone doubting…
Time passes faster in the mornings than it does in the afternoons. An 8 hour shift beginning at 6 is brought to its end more quickly than one beginning at 9. Reasons for why this is the case are too numerous for me to completely list here, and come from a wide array of specializations…
There is often a wait associated with common errand locations: the post office, the bank, the grocery. In anticipation of having to wait, people entering these premises allocate themselves an amount of patience. Allocating patience is like cocking a gun; the patience should be discharged before too long. Most people discharge their patience in small…
Time management: if you want to speed up the passage of time, think of all the things you have to complete before semester’s end. If you want to slow it down, think of how much you want for the school year to be over. One of my friends likes to think of our lives as…
1. Why does waiting a few days to check email result in a confidence that when it is checked, there will be something good to read? Basic odds, I guess. More junk but also higher likelihood of receiving something of interest. It’s a curious, sad, and funny phenomena. 2. Why, when looking at a digital…
E. Wilson, a friend of mine, explained the unsettling feeling that each passing year is shorter than the last this way: each year that passes represents a smaller fraction of your life. At two years of age, one year = half your life. At fifty, the same number of days is reduced to a fiftyith.
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