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last time on sailing bellachandra i

talked about the boat deal

i got when i bought balachandra how

things happened and how i was able to

buy the boat for almost half the listed

price

hey guys if you're new to the channel

i'm dan and my partner is noelle and

we're sailing bella chandra

we're from nova scotia canada and we've

sailed all the way down here to the

caribbean and we've been sailing in the

caribbean for about a year

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press that button hey guys in this

week's video we're going to dip into a

little bit of psychology we're going to

talk about the human brain

and how it relates to cruising it's kind

of borderline psychology philosophy

so if it's not really something you're

into just uh

click through maybe go to the next video

but uh you might find it very

interesting

it's a topic that comes up a lot when

we're just hanging out and having a few

beers and

even other cruisers when they hear this

sometimes they're just like

you know it's a crazy concept but

it's very real and it's worth your time

if you're interested so i hope you enjoy

it

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have you ever wondered why and when

people in their later years

say my life flew by well you hear that

term all the time

how life flies by does life actually fly

by

is it too short or do we just perceive

that it's too short

or towards the end of life do we feel

that it's unfair

and therefore life is too short or was

life actually too short

it's a very interesting question how do

we as

individuals perceive the time we spend

on this planet

when you work in a typical nine-to-five

job day in and day out

one regular work week tends to fly by it

really does

at the end of the week you might say wow

that week really flew by

in contrast to this when you go on

vacation for one week

that time seems to pass more slowly your

one week might feel like two weeks or

three weeks especially in a beautiful

place

leaving you feeling refreshed and

energized with new experiences

and ready to go back to work what's the

difference between working and vacation

why do we perceive our time so

differently

there is a reason for this when you work

an ordinary regular job

you typically do the same thing each and

every day

you get up you shower you have breakfast

you do your morning commute

you do the typical routine of your day

job throughout the day whichever day job

you may have

you then commute home have dinner maybe

some entertainment and then off to bed

and on and on day after day five days a

week

every single week of your working life

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the human brain is a very economic organ

it recognizes your routine activities

things you do all the time

like brushing your teeth driving your

car and things you do at work

especially the things you do more often

or repetitively or routinely

when you do the same activity over and

over you become better at it with

practice

not only do you become better at it but

your brain will automate those functions

because routines are typically the same

each and every time

over and over they are treated as

uneventful

and the brain basically all but switches

off at these times

you may do hours and hours of routine

work at your job

and not even be conscious of the fact

that you're doing it this means that

throughout your work week your brain is

basically on standby waiting for

something different

something worth recording your brain is

basically waiting for a special event

to switch on and start recording and

make that moment memorable

something worth calling up in the future

to say oh

that moment it was special when you're

working

especially if you have a long commute or

a lot of long repetitive tasks at your

job

if you were to add up this time your

brain is basically on standby for the

majority of your

week if you work for years and years

throughout your life

at jobs with commuting and repetition

you can easily spend the majority of

your life with your brain on standby

simply waiting for eventful things to

happen then

when you retire you may look back on a

life spent working

and you will only be able to remember

milestones or vacations as these were

times that the routine was broken

something eventful happened and your

brain started to record

when it's your birthday or when you go

on vacation

especially to an exotic place you're

going to be flooded with new experiences

lots and lots of things for your brain

to process you'll find that you tire

quicker

because your brain will have been over

stimulated with information

the opposite of a normal work day in

order for your brain to process a day on

vacation you will probably want to go to

bed early

you will feel that those days will feel

much longer than a normal day of your

life

if you decide to break your routine like

going on vacation

or to choose a new life for yourself by

living transient or

becoming nomadic like cruising or living

in an rv

traveling across the country you throw

yourself into a new world where routines

become rare

and you are flooded with new experiences

when your days are filled with new

experiences and your brain is working

harder

you'll have a bigger appetite and want

to eat more your brain needs the food

it's being over stimulated you'll be

more tired at the end of the day

this is due to the over stimulation of

your brain with new experiences

so much so that you may feel the need to

write a journal

just to help you remember when there's

so much new information

and your brain is almost tripping over

itself it may be difficult to remember

the new milestones as there are so many

keeping a journal does help

for me at the end of a single month of

cruising on balachandra i can look back

and i can honestly say

that that one month felt like maybe

three months of my old life when i was

working at a job

cruising keeps your brain working it

keeps you active

and it helps you experience a longer

more eventful life

i think if i were to spend my entire

life stimulating my brain in this way

i would feel as though i lived for

hundreds of years it sounds silly when

you say it but when you're so flooded

with experiences

and your brain becomes so full i can't

possibly imagine how when i reach the

age of retirement i will look back and

say wow

my life really flew by how could it fly

by

going at this pace down here in the

caribbean they call it island time

island time simply means that you'll get

around to it

someone could say yeah i'll be there in

five minutes

that usually means sometime within the

next hour

if they say it'll be an hour that

usually means sometime within the day

if they say today that might mean a week

from now

that's just simply the way people live

in places like this

so that's the end of this week's video

about the human brain and cruising i

hope you guys enjoyed it

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happy to answer

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