Seeing in slow motion/Living in the fast lane

Time is subjective. In fact time doesn't physically exist, its just an objective ticker we invented to use as a reference point, a benchmark perhaps in order to organize our busy lives.


Though whats interesting to look at is you one's perception of time, how the faster youre moving, the faster time passes, or the exact opposite. You might have noticed this when you are doing almost any exercise or activity and all of a sudden 2 hours have passed by in what felt like 15 minutes. The exact opposite can be said that when you aren't moving about, time seems to go by slower. Like when your staring at your clock and it feels like 5 minutes have gone by when its only been a minute or less.

I have a theory that perhaps living an active lifestyle keeps your mind sharp, or what I'm really trying to say is: it allows you to see in slow motion.

What I mean by active lifestyle is to enhance your ability of making snap judgments, and perhaps making all decisions in general. Perhaps there is a correlation between one's activity level(of mental and physical stimulation) and one's ability of making decisions which could also possibly translate to one's potential intelligence.

How I see this is that if your body is constantly active (active being physically and/or mentally stimulated) then it is living in the fast lane where time feels as though it is going by quickly. Thus when you slow down (ex: your sitting at your desk doing work or chatting, etc...), your mind is still in the "fast lane" and processes information just as fast. Though now you aren't moving as fast as you were so time seems to go by slowly, but your mind still processes information just as quickly, allowing you to perceive more, in less time.

Think of this analogy, to anyone who watched Dragon Ball Z:

In the shows there was a part when Goku had to go to some alien world to save his friends and combat some villain. But the gravity level on the planet he was heading to was much higher than what he was used to, so he had to train his body and workout in a high gravity bubble sort of thing, in order to get his body tuned to the right level.
Anyways, once he returned to earth, after having trained and fought on that alien planet at such a high gravity level, roaming on earth felt like a breeze and he could move at ridiculous speeds that couldn't have been achieved beforehand.


I also believe that the more active you are, the slower you will age, mentally and physically (though obviously other factors can come into place and change that).

Note: I do realize that you could relate all this to a physical level about health and fitness, about keeping the mind in shape or whatever.

Curiosity Killed the Motherfucking Cat

Aha!

I had written a whole article on how to create a universal worldview for change and I couldn't tell you why exactly but I absolutely hated it - which is why I didn't publish it. Now I know why I hated it.

I had the wrong approach, kind of.

But Seth Godin cleared things up for me in his rant on change junkies in his book Small is the New Big.

Its all too simple really!

Its all about getting people used to change! (duh)

Its actually not simply about change but more so about diversification, which in turn accustoms change.

So how do we do it?

First off, you have to start small, like with anything else in life.

Those that have the hardest time adapting to change are those who do the same things everyday, listen to the same few genres of music, always eat the same food and at the same restaurants.

They never (or rarely) do or try anything different.

Thus when something eccentric comes along, they aren't used to it. Their mind doesn't know how to adapt, so they get frightened and reject the idea. They're used to the old way and they like it.

In cities theres a lot of diversity. Different races, different kinds of restaurants on almost every street, its all one big clash of strangers having to interact with one an other.

Thats why you would find denser populations of liberals within cities. The city nearly forces them to be eccentric. The mindset is automatically created from their environment.

Though, we do still find segregation within cities. Perhaps its because these segregated folks only see the same people at the same places, doing the same things and essentially isolate themselves from society from the fear of trying something new.

The thing is that each time you are exposed to something, you become more familiar with it, thus it becomes easier to accept and perhaps even enjoy.

For example as a child I hated spinach, though I had to eat it. I didn't eat much of it at a time, though just enough to get the taste for it, but not too much that would have affiliated spinach with a radical negative emotion. Today I can say I enjoy eating spinach, at least much more than I used to.

Change, like everything in life, comes in small doses.
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Theres many advantages to diversification.

For one you get to look at several different options, judge for youself and choose which ever option suits you best, your ideal objective (yet really subjective) choice.

Also I believe its crucial to diversify in this day in age since the near future promises so much change, already, as your reading this, things are changing at an exponential rate.

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So my solution to become (more so) accustomed to change:

Diversify everyday little things in your life. Even try things that you don't like!

Start small, for example (some examples taken from Godin):

- Each week try a new type of food, or go to a restaurant you've never been
- Listen to an album from a genre of music you normally wouldn't listen to
- Take a new route to work
- Pickup a magazine from a topic you aren't familiar with
- Meet with people outside of your expertise

At the moment I am trying to eat mushrooms (not the psychedelic ones, though I have tried those to) every week.
Im also going to download some songs by Bruce Springsteen since I haven't really liked him in the past, though many of my friends think hes a god.

Actually last year I chose golf as my gym class because before that I hated golf. I had told myself maybe if I force myself to like it I will, and you know what, golf isn't all that bad, maybe I'll hit up the driving range sometime this summer.

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What im most concerned about are conservatives and organized religions, which essentially are the same. Although you can find religious folks that diversify, but they are just confused and came to a conclusion, mostly because others have already accepted it for them, but thats a rant for an other time.

I don't get conservatives. Dont they get that their title, by definition, is against human progression? Dont they want to make this world a better place? They seem to be living in a dream world where everything is perfect as is already, which is the complete opposite of where the lifespan our specie is heading. The world is far from perfect.

One might argue that error is human, or that human is error, sure that's true at the moment, but with global warming and our specie on its way to extinction, that's an ignorant answer.

Anyways I don't think ignorance means anything to conservatives, they always seem to miss the point.

What conservatives need is a little eccentricity in their lives.

Blacks, asians, mexicans, europeans and middle-easterns need to move in with them. That would give them a little bit of perspective.

An other issue here is those living in Pakistan and in those surrounding areas where media is censored by their government.

I think censorship should be illigal.

In my post Micky Mouse with AK47s you can see what these people are brought up with.

What you see is what you get.

Ignorace was Bliss - Victor Mancini

Mind Reading

Will it ever be possible?

Perhaps. I would imagine so.

And perhaps youll even live to see it in your lifetime as well, even experience it if your lucky.

Though note im not talking about the “psychic” ESP form of telepathy, like a 6th sense, but more so through your 5 senses and by reading one’s body language and microexpressions.

You can already subconsciously and even consciously recognize the differences between anger, disappointment and most emotions when interacting with someone. But now that people are tapping into micro expressions and specifically identifying them (on a conscious level), there’s nearly no limit to what we could learn from one’s body language.

Visual micro expressions might not be our only clues to reading one’s mind. I'm sure we release certain smells that we aren’t even aware of (for the most part).

For example (this is random, yet somewhat relevant) but you can smell when a girl is horny or if she recently had sex. Surely same goes for guys, but hormones or something in the olfactory level is definitely released – a non verbal sign that communicates something.

So imagine if you could pinpoint micro expressions or other traits to specific thoughts!

Perhaps I will do some research, or if anyone else does, I’d like to know about it!