Time Tricks: 3 Fast Ways to Stretch (or Shrink) Your Day

Down the Rabbit Hole · Jul 17, 2026 · 6m

A compact, entertaining seven-minute panel that teaches three quick psychological tricks to change how you experience time — stretch boring stretches into productive pockets and shrink long tasks into manageable bursts. Eric opens with a brief, approachable framing about how attention and memory shape subjective time, then Philip, Shauna, and Eric trade fast examples: frame-and-label (how naming a period shifts attention and memory), micro-segmentation (breaking tasks into clear event markers to expand perceived time), and novelty injections (small, unexpected changes that slow or speed…