Einstein said,"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity."
Sometimes time seems to pass slowly; sometimes it seems to fly by quickly. Sometimes we feel we don't have the time we need to complete everything we must do while at other times we feel we have time "on our hands".
It may seem counter-intuitive but giving your time to others can make you feel you have more time -- in other words, giving time gives you time.
Perceptions of time were the subject of a new study which "gave people some time and had them either (Mogilner et al., 2012):
spend it on themselves,
waste it, or,
spend it on others, whether friends or strangers.
What they found was that people who spent the time on others felt afterwards that they had more time in both the present and the future, compared with those who spent it on themselves or wasted it."
Read more here:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/09/a-counter-intuitive-remedy-to-feeling-short-of-time.php?
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Vocabulary
counter-intuitive (adj.) - opposite or different to your intuition (expectation or feeling) but is true or real
to have time on your hands(idiom) - to feel you have too much time
to be "time rich" - to have plenty of time
to be "time poor" - to lack time
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Do you usually feel you have too much time or too little time? Are you "money rich but time poor" or the opposite?
Were you surprised that helping others could make people feel they had more time?
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