You glance at your phone and it’s October again. Wasn’t it just last October? So where did the time go, and why does it keep going faster?
In this video we follow that small morning jolt through four very different answers: Seneca on the hours we give away, Heidegger on the crowd in your head and the one deadline we all share, the Zen master Dogen’s idea of “being-time,” and what psychology actually says about why some weeks vanish. Then Augustine ties them together, and we take it back to an ordinary week.
Chapters:
0:00 October, again
0:47 Four Thousand Boxes
2:06 The Hours We Give Away
3:19 The Crowd in Your Head
4:58 Being-Time
6:57 The Holiday Paradox
8:16 A Stretching of the Soul
9:43 This Week
10:23 Back to the Mirror
Sources and further reading:
– Augustine, Confessions, Book XI (c. 397–400; E. B. Pusey translation quoted)
– Seneca, On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitae; J. W. Basore translation quoted)
– Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927)
– Dogen, Shobogenzo: “Uji” (1240) and “Genjokoan” (1233)
– Claudia Hammond, Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception (2012)
– Wittmann & Lehnhoff, “Age effects in perception of time,” Psychological Reports 97 (2005)
– Block & Zakay, “Prospective and retrospective duration judgments: A meta-analytic review,” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 4 (1997)
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