Thoughtober Day Sixteen

Neural time

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Norway in have discovered a network of brain cells that expresses our sense of time within experiences and memories.

The network does not explicitly encode time. What the brain measures is rather a subjective time derived from the ongoing flow of experience.

The neural clock operates by organizing the flow of our experiences into an orderly sequence of events. This activity gives rise to the brain’s clock for subjective time.

Experience, and the succession of events within experience, are thus the substance of which subjective time is generated and measured by the brain.

This is really important to know in terms of strengthening our ability to manage time more efficiently and proficiently.

Time management is an executive function and the ability to manage time is dynamic not static.

Today I want you to be aware of the time taken to go about the tasks and habits of your day.

Become aware of time stealers, do not try to stop them at this point, just be aware of how much time is stolen throughout the day.

Time stealers are all those things that do not take you closer to the person you want to be. Those things that prevent you from doing things that support your health and wellbeing. Things that form a barrier for you accessing growth and development, plus those things that support you not being present in all you are doing.

This will be an interesting exercise I think.

Do not judge, do not infer, do not assume nor presume.

This is all just information for you to decide how you want to spend your time going forward.

The more we can control our time and our subjective experience, the more we spend time on the things that matter.

All improving our executive function!

“How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.”