Full Transcript for #43 – TIME (Perception, Memory & Pink Floyd)

already gone. 00:03:56.879 --> 00:04:06.319 And you know this, like when you're like talking to someone who's new, you've never met before, they tell you, they tell you their name, and then you know you get to the end of like that interaction and you completely forgot their name. 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:17.279 Now there's other things at play, maybe like you're a little bit more of a socially anxious person, and so you're trying to pay attention to what they're saying, and you're not you know paying as much mind to what their name is, or maybe you're just bad with names. 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:18.000 I don't really know. 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:27.839 Point is that points to this fact that like you don't remember, like say, for instance, like you're at you know something for work and then they like tell you a couple things that you need to do. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.920 Chances are in an hour, if someone asks and they're like, Oh, like what are the things that you needed to do? 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:33.360 You probably already forgot them. 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:39.680 And if you do remember them, it's only because they asked you about it, and then that cue maybe like brought you back to that instance. 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:40.720 Chances are you forget everything. 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:44.160 This is why taking notes is so important, this is why journaling is so important. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.800 These moments tick away, you completely forget them. 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:50.399 Again, 50% of everything that you do every hour is forgotten. 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:57.600 About 75% of what you do every single day is forgotten, and then 90% of what you do week to week is forgotten. 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:09.120 So if you extrapolate that out over the course of your life, you're probably forgetting, like I don't want to exaggerate here, so I'll just use the weekly percentage, but you're forgetting well over 90% of everything that happens in your life. 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:11.680 Again, it's because these dull days stack on top of each other. 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:24.800 The way to not forget things is to have things that are very provocative, to pay a lot of attention, to write them down, to revisit them, to create uh like kind of cues in your in your psyche to bring you back to these moments that you do want to remember. 00:05:24.879 --> 00:05:31.680 Because even stuff that's you know powerful and your best stories and stuff, like you you'll forget those uh gradually as time goes on as well. 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:36.160 So, anyway, taking away the moments that make up a dull day, dull days get erased from your brain. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:43.519 And then one more uh thing that I want to talk on this a little bit about is so there's this psychologist, Frederick Nietzsche. 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:48.720 He's extremely well known in the area of psychology and philosophy. 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:58.560 And so he's a big proponent of this idea that your life and basically all the way that the whole universe works is it's extremely fluid, everything is constantly and ever changing. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:15.920 And then he's very famous for kind of quoting the way your life works, and he basically kind of postulates this idea that your life is uh is basically just a compilation of extremely rare, powerful, isolated moments, and then just a bunch of gray fuzz in between. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:23.680 So, like, even I mean, if you look back at like your last year, you might have like six, seven, eight things that you like really remember, maybe you have more than that, right? 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:29.680 But just as an example like that, you might have a couple things that really stood out to you, and then the rest of the year is just completely lost. 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:32.079 And so in hindsight, that is what your life is. 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:36.879 Your life is those big moments, and then it's just the gray area in between. 00:06:37.040 --> 00:07:10.240 And then what's awesome, or not awesome, but what's funny is he actually even goes further to say that like if you get too engrossed in those gray areas that happen in between the significant moments of life, or you don't prioritize seeking out those significant moments, that you will actually become what he calls an interval, where essentially you don't have really any of those moments anymore, and so you become the gray area because there's not enough of this significant stuff to really have that be an identifying part of your existence, and so you kind of just become this like you're forgetting everything, like you've like your life becomes an interval. 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:19.680 Your life is not these moments of really great things happening and then the stuff in between, it just becomes the interval between great things, and therefore, like it's it's crazy. 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.079 Let me just read off what he says about it because obviously he's saying it a lot better than I can. 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:38.720 So it says, quote, Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance and of innumerably many intervals during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover over us. 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:52.639 Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea, all speak, all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. 00:07:53.120 --> 00:08:02.959 For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life. 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:14.879 Okay, so again, he's speaking to this fact that like a lot of people are just you know, they they don't even they're not in tune with stuff enough to really have those great moments, and so they're kind of just they're caught in that gray area between things, as he says. 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:22.319 I also think some

other interesting things are is that this idea that these isolated moments of great significance kind of hover over us all of the time. 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:29.360 Like, even if you're you know doing something that's super mundane, you're kind of half like you're you know, you're kind of halfway into what you're doing, halfway not. 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:35.440 A lot of people live like the same like you know, like imagine you're doing dishes, imagine you're cooking, you know, you're kind of thinking of other things, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:40.480 It's in those moments that your mind might drift to something else that's of greater significance. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:48.480 You know, a time where you saw like a really great view of the mountains, you know, the a love that you might have had, a beautiful melody or something like that. 00:08:48.720 --> 00:09:00.639 And then one other part of this quote here from him that I want to speak on a little bit is where he says, all these speak completely to the heart, but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:22.559 And I think this is a very important aspect of this, especially in today's time, because this idea that if these insignificant moments ever do get a chance to speak completely, because I feel like now everyone is so distracted and busy and like has their has their phone out, so that even in these rare, isolated moments of great significance, they're not really locked into what's actually going on. 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.240 I mean, think of like imagine like the biggest Taylor Swift fan ever. 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:31.279 She, you know, saves up for a while, she spends$500 to get great seats at a Taylor Swift concert. 00:09:31.360 --> 00:09:34.080 She goes to watch, and then, you know, Blank Space is her favorite song. 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.320 Blank Space, the intro comes on. 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:37.679 What's the first thing she does? 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:43.600 She pulls out her phone, or not she, you know, they, whoever might be, you know, not trying to be sexist here. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:46.320 They pull out their phone and they immediately start filming. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:53.679 I mean, you look at any concert, every time a big song plays, half of the audience is just on their phones, or not on their phones, but they're holding their phone up to the experience. 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:56.480 They're letting the phone capture it instead of themselves capturing it. 00:09:56.559 --> 00:10:14.240 And so in an instant like that, in an instance like that, I don't think that these moments of great significance are really able to speak completely, like you're not fully experiencing it because you're putting it in this phone, and then you'll, you know, you'll go back and watch it and you'll get a good taste for it, a good flavor of like, oh, I was sitting here, it'll help your memory in hindsight, which, you know, maybe, maybe that's a good thing. 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:15.759 Maybe, maybe that's the way you want to do it. 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:23.120 For me, though, I feel like that that is again taking away from that moment being able to speak completely from you being immersed in it. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:33.519 I think that phones have that problem of people wanting to film every time something significant significant happens in their life, so they're never letting it actually fully affect them as it is supposed to or would. 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:53.600 But also, because we're constantly on our phones, we're constantly scrolling, we're constantly looking at other experiences, as soon as these experiences happen, I feel like our brain defaults to, you know, what could be better about this, for instance, because maybe they've seen, you know, maybe you're getting like engaged, and then you know, you've been scrolling all over social media, and so you've seen a hundred other engagements. 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:58.799 So you're thinking of a different engagement, or maybe you're, you know, playing basketball and you hit like a great shot or something like that. 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:02.799 And then in your mind, you're thinking of, you know, all of these other shots that you've seen in basketball. 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:05.600 That's not really as good of an example as the first one, but you get the point. 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:21.360 Like these we have so many distractions and things that are pulling our brains away from these moments that really are in the end, again, these moments that really make your life that stand out from those gray intervals that a lot of people just get swallowed up by and become. 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.960 So, anyway, going back to the original, the Pink Floyd time lyrics. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.679 So the next lyric is you fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:30.080 Same kind of thing that I'm that I was talking about earlier. 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:35.919 You know, you're you're doom scrolling, you're not really paying attention to what's going on, the hours just kind of fly by, you forget them. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:53.039 Kicking around a piece of ground in your hometown, this is basically saying, like, you know, you're staying in one place, you're stagnant, you're not really going anywhere, you don't really have any direction, which, you know, I think that this would be a more important line if it wasn't followed by a line that I feel like is so much more important and adds a lot of flavor to the previous line, which is waiting for someone or something to show you the way. 00:11:53.200 --> 00:12:05.039 I feel like this is an a super important note that people don't consider and they end up paying extreme dividends on this because they didn't consider it earlier. 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.480 Like, no one is gonna come and show you how to reach your dreams. 00:12:08.559

--> 00:12:10.080 Like, you have to figure it out for yourself. 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:16.879 Like, for instance, I know a ton of people who want to start podcasts because you know it's obvious it's like such an ideal way to make money, right? 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:32.960 You just talk about whatever you want and make money, but they're like, oh, like, you know, I have an idea for it, but I'm waiting for like the right guest to start this, I'm waiting for this, I'm waiting to get the right mic, I'm rate waiting to, you know, make this part of my room better so it looks better in the video, so I have like a suit. 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:40.240 There's always a million reasons not to start something, and no one is ever going to like push you into it except you. 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:48.639 And a lot of people, again, they just you know, they they're waiting for someone else or something to to give them a sign or to do it, and a lot of times that never comes. 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:52.080 Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:53.679 Such an incredible lyric. 00:12:53.759 --> 00:12:57.039 And then it goes into the oh my gosh, the guitar solo in the song. 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.120 Like you just have to listen, you you have to listen to this. 00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:08.559 If there's literally, if any, if anyone who's listening to this has not heard this song or has not mindfully listened to the guitar solo in the song, you have to do that. 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:10.240 Literally do it right now. 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:15.600 Okay, anyway, so next after that, it says, Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain. 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:21.840 Again, it's just kind of speaking to this idea of kind of just mulling around, not doing really anything, letting the days just fly by you. 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:28.080 And then it says, Because you are young or and you are you are young and life is long and there's time to kill today. 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:37.279 So everyone kind of has this mentality, oh, like, you know, one day if I become rich, that that the this kind of idea that it's you know, it's somewhere in the future and something will come along and make it happen. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:37.440 Right? 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:43.679 There's very few people who, or there's a lot more people that when they think about the idea of being rich, they're like, oh, if I ever become rich in the future. 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:51.600 If you say that, you're probably already cooked, to be honest, because that is definitely the mentality of that someone or something is gonna show you the way and put you in that position for you. 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:55.360 You're like, oh, life is long, it's gonna, you know, happen at some point, no big deal. 00:13:55.519 --> 00:14:01.120 I've talked about this a million times, but your life is actually perceptually halfway over by the time you're like 21, okay? 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:16.080 And this can differ a little bit based on people's like the novelty of experience in their life, but your life perceptually, like because you know, all every every adult is like, oh, like, you know, to their to their kids, they're like, oh, it feels like you were born yesterday, every day goes by so fast, right? 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:19.039 It seems like you know, just yesterday, you were seven years old, whatever it is. 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:23.679 That is like scientifically actually how perception of time works, by the way. 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:29.279 Okay, your your life perceptually feels like it's basically halfway over by the time you're in your 20s. 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:36.320 So if you're just waiting for something to to come along, if you're if you think you got all the time to kill these days, you don't, okay? 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:37.120 You don't. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:42.159 I don't want to scare people about this because there's a lot of ways to counteract this, which I'll go into a little bit later. 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:51.360 Not really to counteract it, but to make moves in the directions that you want to without feeling like there's this enormous weighty pressure on you in each moment uh to make that happen. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:52.559 Because that's not really the case either. 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.960 You really just have to be consistent and work something uh day to day, like just do something every day. 00:14:57.039 --> 00:14:58.399 But anyway, so moving on. 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:01.759 And then one day you'll find 10 years have got behind you. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.120 Nobody told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.200 This is, and then it goes into the solo here. 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:09.519 So you find 10 years of got behind. 00:15:09.759 --> 00:15:10.799 This is exactly what I'm saying. 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:11.840 Like what I just told you. 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:16.799 Like you think we, you know, you think you're like 20 and you have, you know, the rest of your life, it's gonna feel like it's forever. 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:19.919 By the time you're 20, you're almost halfway there, perceptually, by the way. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:23.600 Again, I've just I I I want to keep re-eterate reiterating this. 00:15:23.679 --> 00:15:34.399 I go I say this in a lot of my podcasts because I think that this is one of the most important things for people to understand, especially people that are like around my age, is time is going to just start flying by. 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:36.879 I mean, you can ask your parents, you can ask literally any old person. 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:40.320 They will always say this, they're always like, oh, like it feels like yesterday, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:41.360 It feels like yesterday, blah, blah. 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:43.200 There's a reason for that. 00:15:43.279 -->

00:15:43.440 Okay. 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:45.759 So no one told you when to run. 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:47.039 You miss the starting gun. 00:15:47.120 --> 00:15:48.960 All of a sudden you're like, oh my gosh, I'm 35. 00:15:49.279 --> 00:15:50.320 Like, how did I get here? 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:51.279 This is this is crazy. 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:52.000 Like, what happened? 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.279 Oh my gosh, now I need to do this, but there's all these people that are ahead, blah, blah, blah. 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:57.120 No one told you when to run, you miss starting. 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.480 The time to start is now, okay? 00:15:58.559 --> 00:16:09.120 You can't wait for this magical fairy tale moment in the future that's going to happen for you to do anything, for you to start that business, to start that podcast, to create a side hustle, to do, to get in shape, literally any of that. 00:16:09.279 --> 00:16:17.360 It's all, and I I even think this speaks to a bigger kind of idea that time isn't linear as we think it is, or that we kind of perceive it to be. 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:19.919 And there's a lot of reasons that kind of back this up. 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:30.399 For one, if you so say you say you were a dinosaur, or no, no, not a dinosaur, say you were an alien on a distant planet, say you were an alien on a planet that was 64 million light years away. 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:34.559 Okay, so you're this alien, you're sitting on a planet, you're looking through a telescope and you're looking at Earth, okay? 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:51.440 The amount of time that it would take the light from Earth to meet that alien's telescope on this planet 64 million light years away, when that alien looks through that telescope, it would see dinosaurs on planet Earth because the light takes that many years to get there. 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.279 So you're seeing it that many years behind. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:57.600 So, say, for instance, like the Andromeda Galaxy is like 2.5 million light years away. 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:04.559 If there's an alien that's in the Andromeda Galaxy and they're using a telescope to look at Earth, they are seeing the Earth as it was 2.5 million years ago. 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:09.839 So they're seeing humans like basically barely even start to evolve, like they're still essentially apes and stuff like that. 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:30.640 And so the the fact that that is a real concept, that there is someone out there who can perceive a version of Earth where there are still dinosaurs on this planet at the same moment that we are currently alive, kind of just speaks to this idea that time is a little bit, there's a little bit more involved in it than we kind of think with our small lives. 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:41.200 Like when you think of something like that, right, that there's this kind of omnipresence of events, perceivable events throughout the universe, it kind of makes you f think that time kind of exists everywhere all at once. 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.039 And I think that there's like some quantum stuff that that uh supports this as well. 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:50.240 I don't want to go too much into this because I'm not super informed on it, but that's kind of my perception of time. 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:57.359 So, all of that for me to say that again, there is that like literally the magic tale, fairy tale moment that you're waiting for, it does not exist. 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:06.319 And if you have been waiting for that your entire life, and maybe this is like this listening to this episode is like your instigating moment where you're like, okay, I'm gonna start putting a plan into action and get and get stuff rolling. 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:19.599 Chances are if you've if you've never really had any urgency about this and you're just gonna listen to this episode and scroll on to the next thing, like chances are you're probably not gonna yield the results that maybe you know that part of you imagines that you might get or thinks that you might get at some point in the future. 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.599 You might be one of these intervals that Nietzsche says, which you know, there's nothing wrong with that. 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:25.359 I personally, though, am not trying to be like that. 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:32.799 So, anyway, here's the part of the song where it hits probably the best solo of all time, as I mentioned before, and there's a nice bass line underneath it too. 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:39.119 And even, oh my gosh, like just even the way that this music plays into each other, like each aspect of the song. 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:50.559 So a lot of people, and I'll go into another reason why this is another kind of perspective thing here, but so a lot of people don't hear the bass lines on songs just because you know there's a lot more going on in the treble. 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:58.799 So the treble is basically the higher pitches, like it's closer to like what you hear when someone is singing or when a guitar when a guitar solo is happening. 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:12.480 So that is a lot of the times what people listen to, but bass is one of the it's probably other than drums, it's probably the most critical at or critical instrument for bands to have because without bass, your songs sound completely, completely empty. 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:17.920 If you never watch a video where it's like this song without bass and you listen to it and it's like, whoa, this doesn't even really sound like the same song. 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.240 It sounds like like a shell of a song or something like that. 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:27.359 It's because bass is same with like, you know, if you people get their cars like insanely bass boosted, it's because when you really want to feel that music, you turn up the bass. 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:40.160 But a lot of the times it kind of, you know, it falls to the wayside because it's

sort of the background, it's in a deeper register, it's in that lower frequency, which maybe you could speak as to how that kind of you know could be mean something as well, kind of, but whatever. 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:46.880 Anyway, so the bass line in the song is extremely borderline jolly. 00:19:46.960 --> 00:19:50.559 Okay, it's not really it's not really happy, but it's certainly not sad. 00:19:50.880 --> 00:19:58.160 It's almost kind of this like kind of blumbering bass line where it's like do do do do do do do do do do do. 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:06.240 It's kind of like this, it's almost like this like hoppy, like it it it gives me the same energy, and this is gonna be like a super if you know you know type of thing, because it's really not gonna make any sense. 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:15.759 But the if you ever watch the jungle book, the bear, the big blue bear that kind of walks around with Mowgli and how he's kind of got that like lumpy attitude. 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.599 I don't even know if lumpy is the right word to describe this, but it's kind of like this lumbering kind of behavior. 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:26.160 The baseline is kind of like that, kind of like this unserious kind of like uh like song or kind of motion. 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.119 If you know, you know, if you don't, I'm gonna I'm gonna move on here. 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:34.240 But anyway, so the baseline is that it's kind of like this, it's and it's a little bit this positive connotation, right? 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:46.720 And that part of the song, the baseline, almost feels like this part that it's speaking to in your life of kind of like this like this kind of gleefully ignorant aspect of your life where you're kind of just letting things waste away. 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:50.240 Like that is the undertone, the thing that you're not aware of, which is what the song is about. 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:53.839 And the first it's so like this song is so incredible, okay? 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:08.160 I really hope you guys are picking up what I'm putting down right now because this this song, if you listen to the bass and you think about it like that, and then the the solo on top of it, because the solo then, the treble, the thing that ends up being like really what you hear and feel is so haunting. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:26.000 Like it is the most like if you were to create a sound that is yearning and wanting and like emotionally evocative of like exactly what the song is about, of feeling like you're trying to catch up to this thing that you were always behind in the first place, you're running in slow motion, trying to catch up. 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:27.920 It's it is exactly that. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:38.640 And again, this it's all happening over this this kind of lull undertone bass line that is kind of chill, and again, it's got that kind of just you know lumbering around lackadaisically. 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.839 So, anyway, solo absolutely incredible. 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:58.559 And another thing that I want to touch on this, and something that can, for one, prolong your life because it'll increase the uh the vitality of your experiences, but also just because it's a good thing to make you live a more enjoyable life and to listen to songs and get more joy out of listening to songs. 00:21:58.799 --> 00:22:01.599 So basically the the gist of Is that knowledge is appreciation. 00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:03.519 And so, for instance, like with bass, right? 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:10.559 So if you're a person who plays instruments, or if you're a person who plays the bass, obviously you listen to a song, it's gonna be no problem for you to hear the bass because you play it all the time. 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:19.680 Versus if you're someone who doesn't play music, doesn't really know anything about music, doesn't even really know the difference between like a bass guitar and a guitar, totally, totally fine, like no big deal. 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:32.000 But that is gonna inhibit you from you know getting some of this joy from a song like this, where you kind of hear the way that the guitar and the bass are interplaying with each other and how that can contribute to the meaning of the song and all of that stuff. 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:43.519 And you know, this goes for architecture, this goes for art, this goes for, I mean, I'm mentioning a lot of creative things, I'm sure it goes into stuff that's a little more, you know, uh high, you know, it goes in maybe goes in like finance, investment, banking, stuff like that. 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:44.400 I'm I'm not really sure. 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.160 But this idea that knowledge is appreciation. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:57.599 So if you have knowledge of the base, if you have knowledge of architecture, the types of trees, when you're going through your environment, you're able to appreciate these things more because you know specifically what to appreciate. 00:22:57.759 --> 00:22:58.799 I think that's a very important thing. 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:18.160 And also if you go through, you know, a moment where you're walking through the woods and you notice that there's a lot of like poplar trees or a lot of oak trees or something like that, or the way that oak trees are changing shade in the fall compared to the way that, you know, a pine tree isn't changing, or the way that I've uh or like, you know, the way that another certain type of tree that you know is changing. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:28.000 That juxtaposition or that contrast or the way that those interplay, those can just give you and your brain more things to bounce off of and create a more meaningful experience. 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:36.640 And if you have a more meaningful experience, that is what creates more room in your brain for because it deems it as important and that increases the novelty of experience. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:44.400 So that for one, makes you less of an

interval, as Nietzsche would say, but also that increases the perception of time in your life, right? 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:50.799 If you go through a 30-minute stroll through the woods and you're like not even really looking at the leaves, all this stuff, 30 minutes is just gonna fly by. 00:23:50.880 --> 00:24:04.480 But if you're really appreciating, if you're really analyzing what's going on, if you have a lot of knowledge that's translating into appreciation moment to moment, that is gonna feel like a much more uh magnificent or significant experience, and it's gonna feel longer. 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:07.599 So the first way that I would try to implement this is doing it with music, right? 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:08.799 Really try to focus on music. 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:09.440 This is another thing. 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:14.240 People kind of just listen to music, they'll have music on in the background of everything, and so they kind of take it for granted. 00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:19.279 You don't really listen to kind of what the artist's vision was for it, like the way things interplay. 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:21.599 So, you know, just try listening to music a little bit more mindfully. 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:28.559 I mean, music has the power to be this insanely unifying and then just like emotionally, honestly, overwhelming force. 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:33.440 I mean, think about like in the Victorian era when people would go and see a concert for the first time and they would literally pass out. 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:35.839 Like their brains are the same brains that we have now. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:48.799 It's just our brains are so rotted and all consumed by, you know, media constantly 24-7 that we kind of in some ways lose the ability to be truly moved by these incredible experiences. 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:59.759 I mean, we have every single song that's ever been created, released, produced, all at our fingertips, but the appreciation for those sorts of things has never been lower. 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:03.279 Just because of you know how many alternatives that we have available to us. 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.920 So anyway, going back to the song after the solo and the bass, okay? 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.359 And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking. 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:17.359 So this is the idea, and you know, it'll put you right in the emotional spot once you listen to the solo to feel exactly what this is talking about. 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.759 But you know, it's like this idea that like, oh my gosh, I'm behind. 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:23.440 I've lost this, like like time is moving way faster than I than I thought it would. 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:24.799 I thought I had all this time in the world. 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:30.000 Sun is sinking now, it's racing around to come up behind you again, is what the next lyric says. 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:38.160 And then it says the sun is the same

in a relative way, but you're older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death. 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:55.839 So it's like now, you know, maybe there isn't as much time to maybe you had, you know, these all these dreams, you know, you you thought you were gonna be a musician, you thought you were gonna be uh, you know, that you could be a CEO, that you could be a doctor, that you could be a lawyer to do all of these things, and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, like I don't have the energy to do this stuff, I don't have the time to do this stuff. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:02.799 It's you know, you're you're having to cut these things out that you once thought you'd have time for at a later point. 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:05.839 So again, we've kind of touched on on most of this stuff here. 00:26:05.920 --> 00:26:07.759 So then it breaks into the last part of the song. 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.880 It says, every year is getting shorter. 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:12.720 Never seem to find the time. 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:15.440 As I mentioned, every year of your life literally does get shorter. 00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:19.359 This is also because just the percentage of your life that each year is. 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:26.160 So right when you're five years old, I say this a lot, but when you're five years old, one year is 20% of your life versus when you're 50, it's 2%. 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:33.599 So obviously a five-year-old is gonna be like, oh my gosh, a year is so long, it's 20% of all of the time that I've ever experienced, versus when you're 50, it's only 2%. 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.440 Like, think about that difference and think about how your mind perceives that difference. 00:26:37.599 --> 00:26:39.119 So every year is getting shorter. 00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:39.680 Facts. 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:41.440 Never seem to find the time. 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:49.599 Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines, and this is another one that I think is super important, okay? 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:58.720 They say that a plan with action is the source of all success, and action without a plan is the source of all failure. 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:00.640 And this is kind of what this is speaking to, all right? 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:02.960 So you have plans, but you know, there's no action behind them. 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:10.079 Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines, and this is where you put a little bit of action forward, but there's not enough of a plan, right? 00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:24.319 You don't put enough around it, you don't apply yourself enough to it, you don't put enough mental energy towards it, and so you end up with just, you know, maybe you go out to Barnes and Noble one day and you buy a journal and you're like, this is gonna be my travel journal where I'm gonna travel like every country in the world. 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:28.000 And then all of a sudden, you know, 10 years have got by gone by. 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:32.640 You've gone to two countries to visit extended family, and then you have this empty journal. 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:35.039 It's like the secret life of Walter Mitty if you've ever watched that movie. 00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:37.039 And it's like you bought this thing, and what do you get? 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:40.960 You get half a page of scribbled lines because your plans never came to be. 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:45.839 And then it says, hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.160 The time is gone, the song is over. 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:51.359 Thought I'd thought I'd something more to say. 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:54.240 And this is kind of like the great tragedy of this song, right? 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:58.480 It's like this idea that a lot of people are hanging on in quiet desperation, which is so true. 00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:17.519 I mean, if you like, I mean, if you ever even just like drive on the road and you see the way that people get so angry and frustrated, people are projecting, displacing their internal emotions onto the world around them because a lot of people are super unhappy with the way that their lives are, especially now where it's like, you know, you've been working forever, you still can't afford anything, you still can't purchase a house. 00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:22.559 These people hanging on in quiet desperation, hoping that something or some someone is gonna change their life for them. 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.559 That's why you get, you know, absolutely married and tied to these political figures. 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:32.880 It's a lot of the reason why, you know, Trump was able to come into power because he was promising this brighter future for people that, like, what do you know? 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.440 It never really ended up coming into fruition. 00:28:35.519 --> 00:28:39.119 So you're still kind of hanging on in this quiet desperation, as the song says. 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.160 The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say. 00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:44.000 And there's nothing more tragic than that, right? 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:54.079 You think that you're put on this earth, you're like, oh my gosh, I have like all these talents, all of these capabilities, so many things that I mean I can do that I'm going to do, so many things I'm gonna get after. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:59.920 And then it's like, oh my gosh, I thought I'd I thought I'd end up doing a little bit more than than this, like what I'm what I'm at. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:20.480 And at this point, I really want to make what I think is probably the most important, not really caveat, but point and somewhat a caveat of this episode is I feel like a lot of people, at least a lot of people think like me and are on, you know, like grindset TikTok or whatever, and it's like, oh, like, you know, this is speaking to creating plans to, you

know, to make money, to be successful, to make change in the world. 00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:22.720 And I think a lot of that is the case. 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:38.160 But I d I think that the more important takeaway from this is the importance of creating a life of meaning, and then more importantly than that, is or uh integral to how you do that is how you create that meaning in your life. 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:53.119 Okay, so for instance, like if you're a person who, you know, you have a couple kids, maybe you have a dog or something like that, that can be suitably weigh enough meaning, way plenty of these enriching experiences, these things that aren't the gray area, right? 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:55.119 These rare and super powerful moments. 00:29:55.200 --> 00:30:09.359 It can be something as simple as looking at the moon on a night where the moon is orange or even where then where the moon is normal and it looks full, but being able to apply mindfulness to those moments and be like, wow, this is really something special. 00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:13.200 This is really speaking to me because of X, Y, and Z. 00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:19.279 Like I like people, I feel like listen to this song and they're immediately like, oh my gosh, like I need to get on the grind and need to like try to achieve all these things. 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:31.839 I think more importantly, is being able to appreciate what is around you, to be grateful for these things, because there's so many instances of things in your life that people take for granted. 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.000 For instance, like time with your family, right? 00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:44.960 Like, think about in like 40 years when maybe like a lot of your family isn't around, those moments where you know, like you're just like talking in the kitchen with a member of your family that has like since passed away. 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:54.000 That is an unbelievably rare, worthwhile, important, meaningful, meaningful, way more than like any amount of money that you can make. 00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:58.799 You probably trade your whole life savings for another hour of that in in 40 years or whatever, you know. 00:30:58.880 --> 00:31:07.279 So with moments like that, I mean you might be in the moment and you're, you know, talking to a family member in the kitchen, and you're like, oh my gosh, like this, this, this, this person just did this crazy thing. 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:08.960 The Kardashians are starting another show. 00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:09.759 What's up with that? 00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:19.759 And you're not paying any attention to these moments that are happening around you that carry such significance or have the capacity to carry such significance and importance in your life. 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:22.079 So you need to open your eyes to this. 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:23.359 And there's a lot of ways you can do this. 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:28.480 I've gone into a lot of things about like journaling and how that can kind of reframe the way that you're able to look at these moments. 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:31.039 Because again, your brain is not really programmed to do this. 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:33.920 Your brain knows that when you're in a setting like that, it's like, okay, I'm safe. 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.960 Now I can go up the ladder of my hierarchy of needs. 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:45.680 Now that I know that, you know, my I'm I have a full belly and a roof over my head, now I can go to like what dopamine, serotonin, and now I'm, you know, wanting to scroll TikTok and stuff. 00:31:45.839 --> 00:32:04.079 So you need to kind of reverse the programming or at least be mindfully combating this programming that's in your head in order to get this appreciation to be able to induce this novelty and this brilliance of life in the moment-to-moment things that might otherwise seem mundane that you're not able to pull enough meaning from. 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:16.400 So the last thing that I want is for someone to listen to this episode and be like, oh my gosh, like, listen to this episode at you know, 40, 50, 60, 70, however old you might be, and be like, oh my gosh, like this is, you know, this makes me sad because it feels like, you know, my life is cooked, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:21.599 It's act, I mean, you can really create these moments at any point throughout the out your day. 00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:24.720 You can go on a mindful walk right now in the fall and pay attention to the leaves. 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.279 And if you do that enough, it might be one of the best walks of your entire life. 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:28.720 But anyway, I think you get the point there. 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:34.720 Another thing that I want to point out also is that this song, by the way, was written in 1973. 00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:38.960 And again, they're talking about plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:44.160 They're talking about distractions, you know, lying, like, you know, all these lackadaisical things. 00:32:44.400 --> 00:33:01.359 It has never, ever in history guaranteed been easier to just like let your life fall to the wayside, to just scroll away each day, to scroll past, to film through the most important, significant moments that are happening all around you all of the time. 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:06.559 Again, all of these moments that have such capacity to be so impactful for you know your life. 00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:11.359 And almost everyone now is just scrolling these all of these moments away. 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:14.880 I mean, the average screen time now is like six to eight hours. 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:19.279 I mean, a couple years ago it was like four to five, which isn't that crazy, but that's still ridiculous. 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:24.640 And the amount of time that people like literally, it's like you get off from work and then you're just scrolling, looking at screens for the entire rest of the day. 00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:30.640 And I will say those are the moments, I mean, maybe you can still apply these same principles I've been talking about and you know, really pull some meaning out of those. 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:35.359 Sure, you can do that by sports betting and being really invested in a in a game, do some degenerate thing like that. 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:40.319 But the point is you're really, you're really missing out if you're doom scrolling away. 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:41.200 It's never been easier. 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:43.359 Again, this has been a problem for all of human existence. 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:58.240 They were writing about this in 1973, and I don't think that the vices that have been able to create this, you know, pulling you away from the person that you want to become or the moments that you want to relish and really experience. 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:04.400 I don't think it's ever been easier to have immediate access to those vices and be pulled away from those things. 00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:07.039 So that is kind of what I think about this song. 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:23.840 I do have in my podcast like a lot of strategies for ways that you can maximize your life day to day, things like planning, things like taking small actions every day that cumulate into, you know, overcoming hard things to make big things happen in your life through very little action. 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:29.440 For instance, like Wu Wei, which is non action through journaling, through all of this other stuff that I've talked about before. 00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:31.920 But I hope that you've enjoyed this breakdown of time. 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:32.880 Have a going bye.