Heard at Connect: How to Slow Down Time and Just ‘ Do You ’

ASHA Connect 2019 draws to a close tomorrow, but many of the record-breaking number of attendees will go home knowing how to trigger their brains’ amygdalas to slow the passage of time during intensely enjoyable moments. Many will also understand how tapping into emotional intelligence can benefit them and their students, patients, or clients. Keynote speaker—and former Olympic silver medalist speed skater—John Coyle launched the conference with tips on improving the quality and experiential length of life. His wonder as a speed skater at how 3/100s of a second can make such a difference in people’s lives turned into a decade-long investigation into how our brains record memories and perceive time. He shared how we should focus on kairos—the Greek word meaning the human experience of time—instead of the chronos, which is clock time. Coyle’s advice, basically, is to trigger your amygdala in intense situations—in a good way—to force the hippocampus to scan and record what’s happening more quickly. This results in remembering every detail of certain memories and making these moments seem to last longer. In your memory of these experiences, which Coyle says is the true meaning of time, you will lengthen your kairos. His challenges us to try and create 10 of these intense, time-slowing moments a year. Each of these moments, he theorizes, is worth a year of ordinary moments. Using Coyle’s math, then, you turn one year of your life into 10 years’ worth of...
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