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How to Bend Time to Your Wishes in the Pandemic
Are your days dragging on or flying by?
In his famous thought experiment, a 16-year-old Albert Einstein imagined what it would be like to travel as fast as a beam of light. If he rode alongside, traveling at light speed, he wrote, “I should observe such a beam of light as an electromagnetic field at rest.” For the observer, in this case Einstein, time itself would slow down. This, among other thoughts, would lead Einstein to theorize about how time is relative. Time and speed have an inverse relationship — should you find yourself approaching the speed of light, you’ll note that time slows down.
For those of us clocking our days at a human pace on planet Earth, time is constant. Seconds tick by at the same rate for an American as they do for an Australian — or for an accountant in an office building as they do an angler on the ocean. Time slows down only for astronauts in low earth orbit, no one else.
While it may be true that high achievers have the same 24 hours in their day as do you and I, for most of us (myself included), that doesn’t feel like the case. Why? I suspect we can conclude that some efficient people have fine-tuned time management so well that their days appear longer.
