Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control It

by Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor gives an astounding insight into why our perception of time changes – and how we can take charge of it in our own lives.

Why does time speed up as we get older? Why does time fly when we’re having fun, or drag when we’re bored? How can we learn to live in the present?

Citing numerous examples of situations in which time passes slowly, in childhood, under drugs or hypnosis, in accidents and emergencies, during meditation and spiritual experiences, for sportspeople who are ‘in the Zone’ and some of the world’s indigenous peoples – and using evidence from modern physics and his own research, Taylor argues that our normal sense of time is an illusion.

We’ve come to see time as the enemy – as something that’s always racing away from us. And we spend too much of it focusing on the past and the future. Making Time shows how to control our sense of time, effectively increasing the length and quality of our lives. But perhaps most importantly, it shows us how we can reclaim what is ultimately the only thing we have: the present.

• Paperback
• 261 pages
• ISBN: 9781848310018