As Erich Fromm put it, “Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains – except kill it.
The slower your brain is at processing sensory information, the faster time seems to run, and vice versa’ How.
The brain’s auditory cortex, for instance, processes an audio signal from your ear faster than a visual signal is processed in the visual cortex. The difference is around 40 milliseconds, which is not much, but enough to justify using a gun for starting a race, instead of a light flash. The faster audio processing speed means that sprint runners react more quickly to a bang than to a flash of light.
The slower your brain is in processing sensory information, the faster time seems to run. This seemingly inverse relationship is important to understand why we sometimes experience time as speeding up or slowing down. So how fast are we actually processing reality?
You can divide your money between things like clothes, a new car, or a fancy dinner, but you can spend your time on only one thing at a time.
The universe does not know that you exist, does not care that you exist, and is not really interested in your desires. No matter how hard you think about something, it will not be yours if you do not do anything about it.