Running for Your Life: After Boston
My pal and original thinker Mike Tully http://bit.ly/hRtDDq has a thought about why it is that the older you get the faster time seems to go by. Coach Tully, who has made a close study of sports psychology (and is a high-demand public speaker on coaching, with an emphasis on athletic improvement), believes it may have something to do with the brain’s RAS, or reticular activating system.
As we age and get even more set in our ways (as most us do), our evolved RAS kicks in and our daily stimuli becomes so familiar that time appears to pass more quickly than it did when we were younger. (It is why, CT says, the drive home from an unfamiliar destination always seems noticeably shorter than the journey over foreign territory to get there. When you return, the course is known – it lacks surprise – and thus the time feels more compressed, even though it is virtually the same in physical length.)
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