Even though many of us are still working from home and days of the week can sometimes meld into one another, the weekend still seems to (and perhaps more so, because of it) fly by.
Well science says there's a simple hack to slow down time or at least our perception of it: avoid a routine. According to this article from the Cut, if you want to make your days off to pass more slowly, the key "is to seek out newness— new settings, new activities." As Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman explains, “when you go and experience something novel, it seems to have lasted longer...because you’re more focused on collecting the unfamiliar information into a memory. It’s why time seems to fly by so much faster as an adult then it did when you were young...[when] you’re a kid, everything is novel and you’re laying down new memories about it. So when you look back at the end of a childhood summer, it seems to have taken a long time because you remember this and that, this new thing, learning that, experiencing that.”
"The same thing holds when you consider a much smaller stretch of time...a weekend getaway, for example, will seem much longer than a weekend spent at home. A weekend spent at home, if you spend it exploring new neighborhoods or trying new restaurants, will seem longer than one where you hole up in your apartment with a book, [and so on]."
"A caveat, though...this is only true in hindsight...Come Monday, you’ll remember a novelty-packed weekend as feeling like more time. But in the present, you’ll feel like it’s going by too fast — time really does fly when you’re having fun, and it really does seem to crawl when you’re bored." Yup, we how that is; when you have nothing to distract your brain logs every tick of the clock.
Separately, sweating is really good for heart health...and you can't get a runner's high just by relaxing in a sauna.
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