Why Age 18 May Feel Like Life’s Midpoint
34 sec History & how-to
We all know that if you live to be eighty, the midpoint of your life is forty. But you've probably noticed that when you were a kid, a single day felt like a lifetime. Now that you're older, days fly by like a rocket. That's because our perception of time isn't linear, it's logarithmic.
Assuming your first memories start at age four and based on an average life expectancy of eighty-one years, under a logarithmic model of time perception, the true midpoint of your life is exactly eighteen.
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