Think about driving a route that’s very familiar. It could be your commute to work, a trip into town or the way home. Whichever it is, you know every twist and turn like the back of your hand. On these sorts of trips it’s easy to zone out from the actual driving and pay little attention to the passing scenery. The consequence is that you perceive that the trip has taken less time than it actually has.
This is the well-travelled road effect: people tend to underestimate the time it takes to travel a familiar route.
The effect is caused by the way we allocate our attention. When we travel down a well-known route, because we don’t have to concentrate much, time seems to flow more quickly. And afterwards, when we come to think back on it, we can’t remember the journey well because we didn’t pay much attention to it. So we assume it was shorter.
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| An old gentleman was very unhappy
about modern education, and thought that young people nowadays were not being
taught the importance of knowing the difference between right and
wrong. One day he was taking a walk in the park near his home when he saw some young boys standing around a small cat. The old gentleman went up to the boys and asked them what was happening. One of the boys said to him: "We’re having a contest. We’re telling lies and the one who tells the biggest one gets to keep the cat." The old gentleman thought that this was a good opportunity to teach the boys a useful lesson, so he said to them, "I’ve never told a lie in my life." All at once there was a great shout from all the boys, and they said, "You’ve won! You can take the cat!" |
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