Enter the Matrix — The Science of Slowing Down Time

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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People commonly think of time as a fixed, linear, objective structure. But our own experiences belie this belief. We’ve all been in situations where time has seemed to drag on or speed up, and there are even whole periods of our lives that seem to have gone by slower or faster. As my guest Steve Taylor will explain, time is a lot more fluid and moldable than we often recognize. Steve is a psychologist and the author of Time Expansion Experiences: The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time. Today on the show, he unpacks the four laws of psychological time. He discusses the theories as to why time speeds up as we get older and what factors slow down and speed up time. We delve into the way time particularly expands in accidents and emergencies, giving people the ability to take life-saving measures. And we discuss why some people are more likely to have time expansion experiences than others, and what you can do to slow down time and make your life feel longer as a result.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.
0:11.7	People commonly think of time as a fixed, linear, objective structure.
0:15.8	But our own experiences belie this belief.
0:18.1	We've all been in situations where time has seemed to drag on or speed up.
0:21.9	And there are even whole periods of our lives that seem to have gone by slower or faster.
0:25.9	As my guest Steve Taylor will explain, time is a lot more fluid and moldable than we often recognize.
0:31.0	Steve is a psychologist and the author of Time Expansion Experiences,
0:34.8	the Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time. Tay on the show, he perception and the illusion of linear time.
0:38.0	Today on the show, he impacts the four laws of psychological time.
0:41.5	He discusses the theories as to why time speeds up as we get older and what factors slow down
0:45.8	and speed up time.
0:46.9	We delve into the way time particularly expands in accidents and emergencies, giving people
0:50.6	the ability to take life-saving measures.
0:52.6	And we discuss why some people are more likely to have time expansion experiences than others,
0:56.5	what you can do to slow down time and make your life feel longer as a result.
1:00.5	After the show's over, welcome to the show.
1:18.7	Hi, Brett.
1:19.5	Great to be with you.
1:20.4	So you are a psychologist who has spent his career studying time expansion experiences.
1:26.8	What is a time expansion experience? It's a moment when time
1:31.9	stretches out way beyond its normal speed. So a second or two could stretch out into maybe half a
1:37.2	minute or a minute or even longer. They often happen in accidents or emergency situations,
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