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You're listening to how to be a better human.

I'm your host Chris Duffy.

Something I've been thinking about a lot recently is how time seems to just keep speeding up.

The older I get, the more that it seems like months and weeks just rip right on by.

One day I look down and it's the middle of the summer and then I look up and it's somehow New Year's Eve.

It makes my head spin.

But what I've been really trying to think through is how to slow time down.

How can I really experience each moment and make sure that I don't just blink and realize that my life is passing me by?

For me, there are a few reliable ways to slow time down, to make it feel like it is not flying by. One is travel. A day in a new place, it feels so much longer than a day at home. It feels so full of memorable, exciting and new things. But I actually don't think that's the most fun way to slow down time. The most fun way to put a

mental signpost in a day for me is to make sure that I am a part of some sort of spectacle,

something weird and wild and unexpected.

Those are the most fun and the most memorable days.

A random parade that you walk past and decide to join in.

That is an A-plus spectacle.

Or a DIY relay race competition

that's organized by your friends.

That's a spectacle too.

Or maybe if you're lucky, you can be part of some sort of community

spectacle, whether it is a farmers market

or a musical performance, an art show, a reading at a library, or a night of jokes and stories.

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