u/10AMPublishing

been down a psych rabbit hole from just scrolling random stuff lately and it’s messing with how i see people, myself included

biggest one: procrastination isn’t really laziness. i’ll leave a text or email unanswered for days, not bc it’s hard to reply, just something about it makes me avoid it and i can’t even explain why. “just do it” never worked bc it doesn’t touch that

also annoyingly — knowing about a bias doesn’t stop you from falling for it. i KNOW what social proof is and i still catch myself doing stuff just bc everyone around me is doing it, like i’ll notice mid-decision and go “wait why am i actually doing this.” knowing didn’t stop it from happening first

anyone else have a random psych fact just recontextualize a bunch of behaviour at once? doesn’t need to be some big study, even a small thing works

We know that social media shows a carefully selected version of someone’s life, yet seeing another person’s success can still make us feel as though we’re falling behind.
What interests me is how quickly the comparison happens. We rarely know their circumstances, advantages, failures, or what their life actually feels like. But the mind still turns one visible moment into a judgment about our entire life.
Why do you think knowing that the comparison is unfair rarely stops us from making it?

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how attention, routine, novelty, and memory shape our sense of time.
One idea I found fascinating is that enjoyable moments can pass quickly while we’re living them, but feel longer in retrospect because they create richer memories.
Have you noticed a particular age when the years started feeling faster? And do you think routine, age, or something else caused it?