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Do you feel time moves faster when you get older?

I actually do feel that.

When I'm writing a journal, I unconsciously write down the year 2016.

I was like, oh my god, why is my memory still stuck there?

And every year when I have my birthday, I feel like I was a teenager not that long ago.

And my memories from my childhood and teenage years seem to be more vivid.

Now I'm more than 30 years old, I feel like time moves even faster.

Why does this happen?

One reason is that our perception of time changes as we get older.

When we are 10 years old, one year is just 10% of the life we've already lived.

And when you are 31 years old, like me, one year is just 3% of your life so far.

And another factor is that as you get older, your life becomes more stable and repetitive.

You enter the job market, you stay in the same position for several years, you get along with the same co-workers or friends, and you do the similar things over and over again.

So there's nothing new in your life.

But when you were a teenager, there are so many firsts.

You probably remember your first trip, your first day at a new school, your first birthday party, your first kiss,

and the first time experiences tend to leave more memories than the repetitive ones.

There have also been several moments in my life where I felt time really stopped.

I think that is related to the overloads of information and emotions.

You know, when you are experiencing very strong emotions like fear, nervousness, excitement, or happiness, time tends to slow down.

I still remember one experience I didn't expect it to happen at all.

I was in a very serious car accident.

I still remember the moment when I was sitting in a car and two trucks hit my car from the back.

and I remember how the windows were shattered.

So that also reminded me that when you go through extremely emotional and traumatic events,

your brain automatically flashes back to them vividly.

Anyway, our time perception and memories are related to the strengths of emotions that we experience at particular moments.

I'm not asking you to do anything extreme, but I'm saying that maybe sometimes you can bring some novelty into your life, Maybe take a new project,

find a new job, meet new people, and try new foods or try a new kind of coffee.

These little changes may make you feel like your life is not just one repetitive routine.

But it doesn't matter how many new experiences we create for ourselves, how exciting our life is, how wonderful the world is.

We all face the same dilemma.

We don't feel we have enough time for life.

This problem is often described as time poverty.

While modern society contributes to the problem, I think it has more to do with the nature of being human.

No matter where you live, where you come from, and how much money you have, we have to face the brutal fact, which is our life is finite.

I always remember a good point from the book, 4,000 Weeks.

As human beings, we are given the gift of creativity, imagination, and all kinds of capabilities.

But we also seem to have infinite ambitions, and our ambitions seem to always exceed the limits of time we we have omers.

So there's always a fundamental contradiction between our physical limits and our imagination.

And as intelligent creatures, we have to endure the pain of time limits.

So this reminded me of ancient Chinese wisdom.

爱无生之事,互相长江之无穷

It translates into we grieve over the brevity of our own lives while looking at the endless flow of the Yangtze River.

And the modern society makes this contradiction even stronger as it offers

so many opportunities and so many new things for us to try.

There's so many books I want to read, so many hobbies I want to develop, so many songs I want to sing, and so many new things I want to learn,

but there's simply not enough time for all of them.

Even now, I am very lucky to have a flexible job as an entrepreneur and content creator.

I still constantly feel that I don't have enough time for everything I want to do in my life.

You know, brainstorming, researching, writing books, creating videos, and creating courses, all of these things take a large amount of time.

If I spend more time on a productive work, I have less time for my personal hobbies like drawing, singing, playing the piano, etc. We have to admit

that time is one of few things that is fundamentally limited for every one of us.

I don't think the ultimate solution is to become more productive.

You will find that even if you are super productive, you will always have more tasks to complete.

You will always have more ambitious desires and things you want to do, and you still end up with a full to-do list.

So you can always maximize your productivity, but you will always hit a ceiling.

So we have to ask ourselves a more fundamental question.

How do we spend our limited time on earth on the things that really matter?

So sometimes we don't need addition, we need subtraction.

There's research suggesting that having two to five hours of discretionary time every day is associated with higher well-being.

If you are too busy, you will feel stressed out, anxious.

If you have too much free time, you will feel you lack a sense of purpose and you feel unmotivated.

So maybe give yourself some space in your day.

Give yourself two hours to do the things that are unrelated to your work.

Take a walk, walk your dog, draw, sing, meditate, anything you like.

We don't have eternal life, we are human beings.

Maybe we have to learn to accept the limits and work within them.

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本課的詞彙與口語要點

這節 B2 級別的口語課以影片“Why Does Time Feel Faster As We Get Older?｜全英Talk：長大之後，時間越過越快？如何應對時間貧困？”為素材。這段影片共有 67 個句子、1009 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 6:05。說話人語速自然，每分鐘約 166 個詞，接近日常對話。 86% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中最難的 15 個單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
emotion 名詞	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	感情, 情感
contradiction 名詞	/ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/	反對, 反駁
ambition 名詞	/æmˈbɪʃ.ən/	奢望, 抱負 /抱負
hobby 名詞	/ˈhɑ.bi/	愛好 /愛好, 嗜好
teenager 名詞	/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/	少年, 青少年
perception 名詞	/pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/	知覺 /知覺, 感知
brainstorming 名詞		頭腦風暴 /頭腦風暴, 腦力激盪 /腦力激盪
excite 動詞	/ɪkˈsaɪt/	激動 /激動
meditate 動詞	/ˈmɛ.dɪˌteɪt/	沉思, 冥想
overload 動詞	/ˌəʊvəˈləʊd/	超載 /超載
shatter 動詞	/ˈʃætɚ/	使破碎, 使碎裂
subtraction 名詞	/səbˈtɹækʃən/	減法 /減法
maximize 動詞	/ˈmæksəmaɪz/	最大化
novelty 名詞	/ˈnɑvəlti/	新奇
dilemma 名詞	/daɪˈlɛmə/	困境, 進退兩難的境地 /進退兩難的境地

影片中出現的短語動詞

單詞	釋義
go through 動詞	通過 /通過
slow down 動詞	減速 /減速, 放慢
write down 動詞	寫下來 /寫下來, 寫下 /寫下

值得反覆跟讀的句子

影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：

Do you feel time moves faster when you get older?
We don't feel we have enough time for life.
We don't have eternal life, we are human beings.

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
條件句 if + 從句，will/would + 動詞 — 條件及其結果	if you are super productive, you will always · If you are too busy, you will feel
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	were shattered · is often described · are given
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	we've already lived · have also been

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 12 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 don't, I'm, didn't。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/
長單詞——注意重音位置: repetitive /ɹɪˈpɛtɪtɪv/, contradiction /ˌkɑːntɹəˈdɪkʃən/, discretionary /dɪsˈkɹɛʃəˌnɛɹi/, unconsciously /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəsli/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 emotion, contradiction, ambition 這類單詞。

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