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How Long is Two Minutes?

How Long is Two Minutes?

Create more time

Douglas Finkelstein
August 15, 2024

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Today’s Setlist

🎩 One Theme → How Long is Two Minutes?

😄 Funny Business → Is six even enough?

📊 Community Poll → We don’t bite on free samples

😮‍💨 Tonight’s Breathwork → Inner Child (join here)

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How Long is Two Minutes?

(Estimated Read Time: 3 minutes)

Is two minutes long? Or is it short?

When I watch TV, two minutes feels like nothing. Twenty-two minutes fly by when I’m watching something good—sometimes even 50 or 60 minutes. (Morgan and I are watching The Good Place and Dark Matter—highly recommend both.)

When I do nothing for two minutes, two minutes feels like an eternity. I seem to have more thoughts and internal conversations within those two minutes than I do on some entire days.

From the We Croak app

Time is relative and abstract.

It stretches and shrinks depending on what we’re doing and how we’re feeling. It’s wild how two minutes can feel like two seconds or two hours, depending on how we occupy our time.

So now that we know time can be manipulated, what can we do with that information?

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Create more time

It’s easy to take the path in front of us and nearly drown in the thunderous river of constant pressure from our calendars, our egos, and external demands.

There’s another way.

We can inflate a flamingo floatie.

Hint: The floatie is a metaphor for your Slow Practice.

Slowly but surely, as we spend time inflating our floatie, the river’s current seems to slow down with us. Like watching The Good Place 24/7.

In what feels like just two minutes, we suddenly find ourselves leisurely floating down the river, enjoying its beauty.

But here’s the thing: you have to inflate your floatie—and keep it inflated.

Mastering time isn’t about control; it’s about choice. You can rush through time, desperately hoping for a floatie to grasp in the thunderous river, or you can decide to slow the fuck down today, inflate your own floatie, and savor the ride down the river.

I have good news!

You don’t have to inflate your floatie alone. In fact, it inflates a lot quicker when you have others helping you. It can even be fun…🐢

You are welcome to inflate your floatie slow down with me and some other cool people tonight—for free.

If Thursdays are tricky for you, drop me your email here and I’ll help you inflate your floatie at a different time—also for free.

😄 Funny Business

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📊 Community Poll

Results for last week’s question: When given a free sample at a small booth or market, do you feel obligated to purchase it?

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Wow, y’all are ruthless to the kind, elderly lady just trying to make a living with her homemade granola.

So that’s why Doug C. has that 30-pack of family size Funions…

For me, it definitely depends on sample size. If I feel like you gave me a solid snack as opposed to just a bite, I feel obligated. And if it was actually good…you’ve probably got me.

On to this week’s question…