Amit Dalal

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

ne ego obliviscar #Remembering

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Every year of your life feels shorter than the last one. There's a reason for that. Your brain measures each new year against all the years you've already lived.

At age 5, a single year is 20% of everything you've ever experienced. At 30, that same year is about 3%. At 50, it's 2%. By that math, a year at 50 feels about 10x faster than it did at 5.

But that's only one of four things your brain is doing to speed time up.

Your eyes are slowing down, too. Adrian Bejan, a professor at Duke, found that your eyes make tiny, rapid jumps to scan the world around you, and those jumps get slower with age. A baby's eyes dart around nonstop. Adult eyes are sluggish by comparison, with longer pauses between each jump. Fewer jumps means fewer images captured per second, which means your brain is recording your life at a lower frame rate every year. Same day, fewer snapshots saved.

A 2025 brain-scanning study at Cambridge backed this up. Researchers put 577 people (ages 18 to 88) in scanners while they watched an 8-minute Hitchcock scene, and tracked how often each person's brain switched between different activity patterns. Think of each switch as a scene change in the movie playing inside your head. Older brains made fewer scene changes in the same 8 minutes. As you age, your brain gets worse at telling one moment apart from the next. Faces and scenes start to smudge together.

Then there's your brain chemistry. Your internal clock runs partly on dopamine, a chemical your brain produces less of as you get older. In one study, researchers told people to close their eyes and count to 2 minutes in their heads. People in their 20s stopped at about 115 real seconds. Close enough. People over 50 stopped at 87 seconds. They were convinced 2 minutes had passed when barely a minute and a half actually had. Their brain's clock was running about 25% faster than the wall clock.

The last thing working against you is routine. Your brain stores new experiences in vivid detail but barely saves the stuff you do every day. A kid's first sleepover gets a packed memory file. An adult driving the same commute for the 3,000th time gets almost nothing recorded. When you look back on a month of the same routine, the whole thing just collapses. A 2024 VR study confirmed this: older participants underestimated how much time had passed by about 15%.

One thing every study agrees on, though: new experiences are the closest thing to a brake pedal. Researchers who study "super-agers" (people in their 80s with the memory sharpness of someone decades younger) found they never stopped learning new things and staying socially active. Their brains kept recording fresh snapshots instead of replaying the same ones. Time didn't blur for them the way it does when you settle into a fixed routine.

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

Happy 2nd April to those who celebrate.

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

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[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

@CapacitiesHQ When is fixed width font for notes planned?

[JustCallMeJT @JayawantTewari]

Horrendous traffic jam every single evening on #GearSchool Road. Thousands suffering. Pollution noise rage and stress. @bellandurutrfps @blrcitytraffic @GBAChiefComm @DKShivakumar @INCKarnataka @ArvindLBJP @Tejasvi_Surya

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

@CapacitiesHQ When would I be able to take notes in fixed with fonts?

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

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[Ed Hansberry @ehansalytics]

Name a bigger lie.

I'll wait.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

You'll Never Walk Alone ❤️

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

😲😲😲

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

My portfolio’s pronouns are was/were.

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

🏏 🇮🇳

[𝕐𝕒𝕜𝕠𝕧𝕠𝕝𝕗 @Yakovolf]

Vladimir Putin has offered to mediate a peace deal between Trump and Zelenskyy.

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

People frequently get what they deserve, but it doesn't feel like it because the unspoken rule is that you only deserve it if you have (1) the courage to attempt it, (2) the guts to ask for it, and (3) the willingness try again when it doesn't work out the first time. @JamesClear

[Fan Account Richard Kettlebourogh @RichKettle07]

Once upon a time in BGT 👏🏻

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

ICT tonight #INDvsAUS

[Vikram Sathaye @vikramsathaye]

Test Cricket gives you RESPECT ❤️ You can get Roti, kadpa , Makaan , Gadi , Bangla from T20 . But Test Cricket is MAA 🙏 #nitishkumarreddy

[Amit Dalal @amdalal84]

@vikramchandra “clean air, clean water and general cleanliness is a huge problem. However, if the Government wants, it can be fixed in 3-4 years flat!”

How?