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Do you know how long you have left to live? The age of the majority of our YouTube subscribers is between 18 and 35, a category defined by Tokayev as "youth."
Explore how we perceive time, its impact on life, and cultural meanings behind numbers like 40 in this thought-provoking video.
Key Takeaways
- Humans have far less free time than perceived due to sleep, work, and daily chores.
- Understanding and perceiving large spans of time is inherently difficult for humans.
- Cultural traditions and numbers, like 40, have deep historical and symbolic significance.
- Time perception changes with age, making it feel like it speeds up as we grow older.
- Global time systems and daylight saving changes have real-world health and social impacts.
What the video covers
- The video discusses the limited time humans truly have for themselves after accounting for sleep, work, and daily tasks.
- It explains human difficulty in comprehending vast time scales, such as millions or billions of years, using relatable examples.
- The video clarifies common misconceptions about historical timelines, such as the eras of dinosaurs and Cleopatra.
- It explores cultural and symbolic meanings of the number 40 across different societies and traditions.
- The relationship between celestial bodies and the naming of the days of the week is examined.
- The video touches on the complexities of global time coordination and the effects of time zone differences.
- It highlights the health impacts of daylight saving time changes on heart attack risks.
- The perception of time speeding up with age and how this affects human experience is discussed.
- Historical and cultural shifts in traditions, such as Christmas celebrations, are briefly covered.
- A promise is made to reveal a 100% effective way to prolong life, teasing viewers to watch until the end.
Chapters
- 00:00How Much Time Do We Really Have?
- 00:59What Steals Two-Thirds of Our Lives?
- 02:19A 100% Effective Way to Prolong Life
- 03:15Why Does Time Seem to Fly?
- 04:22Understanding Human History and Time Scales
- 05:24Misconceptions About Dinosaurs and Historical Figures
- 06:46The Symbolism and Meaning of the Number 40
- 08:47Celestial Bodies and the Days of the Week
- 09:34Global Time Coordination and Its Effects
- 11:22Health Impacts of Daylight Saving Time
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That is, let's say you are about 26 years old. You are still young; your life is ahead of you.
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It may seem so. In fact, it seems like there’s not much time left. Tick-tock, tick-tock, your time is running out.
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In front of you is a table that shows the average life expectancy of a person today divided by years.
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In this cell, you went to school; in this place, you passed the UBT, and when you reach this square (((unless it is extended again, of course))) you retire.
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If we divide our life into weeks, it looks like this. We spend only this part of our life with our parents.
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After that period, the time we spend with our parents and relatives decreases sharply. It's just that this graph doesn't take into account two other things that steal two-thirds of our lives.
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On average, a person sleeps 8 hours a day. Of course, we cannot answer for teenagers who sleep 15 hours and students who sleep only 2-3 hours during a session.
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Eight hours is a third of your day. The second thing is your studies or your 9 to 5 job.
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Let's not get into statistics, but that's another third of your day. Thus, out of all the circles on this chart, only ONE THIRD of your time will be left for yourself, loved ones, hobbies, interests, and other things you love.
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If we count the time we spend on simple, everyday tasks like laundry, cooking, cleaning, personal hygiene, and so on, the "free" time we have for real LIFE is even less.
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In short, we think we have a lot of time, but in reality, it can be said that we have NO time.
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But there is one way to prolong life that works 100%: it is not dietary supplements, not vitamins, not prayers, not sports.
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And I'm not talking about the methods of biohacker Brian Johnson, who looks gray and pale.
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Where can we get money for such methods? So what is it? We will explain what it is at the end of the video.
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We will also answer the following questions in this video: Why is it a good idea to put an iPhone in the hand of a Tyrannosaurus?
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Why was there no past, the future already happened, and the present doesn’t even exist? Why do we spend two-thirds of our lives not living?
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How do millions of people travel through time every day without realizing it? Why is it that everyone can choose their own time in Antarctica, but this freedom does not work in other countries?
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Time flies faster than you think, but what's the best way to slow it down?
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Human perception of time in general is a difficult thing. When we come to the time, we often get puzzled.
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For example, in one of our videos about the evolution of the whale, when we mentioned an animal that "lived 40-50 million years ago," several people commented: "Why 40-50 million years ago? It's 2024 now." But we can't blame them that much.
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When a human being who lives for about 70-80 years does not understand the length of his life, how about you try to explain the same 70-80 years to a butterfly that lives for 5-6 days?
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In the same way, it is very difficult for a person to understand what a million years is.
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Not to mention a billion. Do we understand the difference between millions of years and BILLIONS of years?
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Can we try to understand? Do we know how human history really turned out? Well, let's analyze together, shall we?
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For me as a humanitarian, the difference between a billion years and a million years is simply A LOT.
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But you can try to understand with the following example: A million seconds is about 12 days.
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And a billion seconds means 32 years! Do you feel the difference now? Historical events, their sequence, how we usually perceive them improperly is a completely different STORY.
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For example, let's take our favorite topic - dinosaurs. It seems to us that they are all together, all species, like one big family, living at the same time.
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BUT! The famous Tyrannosaurus Rex lived about 68–66 million years ago, while Stegosaurus lived 155–150 million years ago.
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Even if we put the pictures of these two dinosaurs side by side, they are separated by more than 80 million years.
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In fact, Tyrannosaurus Rex is much closer to us in time than Stegosaurus. That is, as I said, 66-68 million years separate us, and 90 million years between Stegosaurus and Tyrannosaurus.
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Another example is Ancient Egypt. It seems to us that the famous Cleopatra lived near the pyramids, we imagine that she participated in the ceremony of their opening, and we think that she was born a little later.
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But the reality is completely different from what we thought! Cleopatra lived between 69 and 30 BC, and the famous Pyramids of Giza were built in 2560 approximately.
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That is, the time of Cleopatra is closer to our time than the time of the pyramids: if we put Cleopatra in the same era, we would put it in the same era not with the pyramids, but with COVID-19, popites, and quadrobers.
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But, by the way, we are talking about where quadrobers came from. It seems to come from ancient Egypt. Look at the hieroglyphs, is that a quadrober?
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Anne Frank and Chinghiz Aitmatov are "peers," both were born in 1929. Marilyn Monroe and the ex-queen of Great Britain, Elizabeth II, were the same age.
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Of course, we always imagine Marilyn as a young woman, and we see Elizabeth as a grandmother - it seems that the Kazakhs who are dramatically mourning her on Instagram even see her as their own grandmother. Did those who mourned that aunt commemorate her 40th day after death later?
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By the way, where did this 40 days come from? In Kazakh culture, the concept of "forty days" has a special meaning.
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When a person dies, we remember him by commemorating the 40th day after death, and when a child is born, we remove him from forty.
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By the way, we are not such a unique people in this regard. This tradition exists not only in our country, but also in other nations: the Russians have the sorokoviny, giving forty days and removing the child from forty,
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the concept of "forty days" also exists in the Philippines, in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
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The concept of quarantine also means the number "40." What does this number mean? Why 40?
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What is this number? There must be a natural reason for this. Take the decimal system for example. We count from one to ten, right?
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Most of the peoples of the world use this system. Why? The answer is anatomy and elementary math teacher's most hated thing.
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How many fingers does a person have? A person (((usually))) has ten fingers, which serve as the first natural means of calculation — the first computer.
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There is a natural reason why the number 7 is considered sacred by many people.
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Since ancient times, the number of celestial bodies that mankind can observe without a telescope is seven: the Sun, the Moon, and 5 large planets such as Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
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Haven't you noticed? In English, the days of the week refer to the celestial bodies. Monday, Sunday are the days of the Moon and the Sun, and Saturday is the day of Saturn.
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This is not unique to the English; it is the same in many other nations.
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So what is 40? What is the natural basis of forty? Let's solve the mystery of this number together.
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Not from the point of view of prolix numerology, of course. From the point of view of etymology, cultural studies, sociology, history.
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The period of human pregnancy also lasts about 40 weeks. That is, this number may have a symbolic value related to the birth of a person.
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Also, according to some estimates, it usually took a maximum of 40 days to get from one village to another.
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It may have come from that. The word forty is strange, haven't you noticed? One hypothesis is that in ancient times "forty" generally meant VERY MUCH.
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Think for yourself, does an ordinary person need a number more than 40? Did an ordinary Kazakh have more than 40 small animals or more than 40 coins, gold and silver?
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If you know any other predictions, please write them in the comments below. But when it comes to human civilizati
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shall we say something that no one has ever told you? You and I are just 20 seconds.
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A? you might say. If we try to fit the history of life on Earth into a 24-hour day, The origin of mankind takes only a small part of the whole time.
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Time can be described as follows: Suppose the Earth was formed at 00:00. So, at 4 am, that is, 3.8 billion years ago, life appeared.
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In the past 16 hours, not so interesting things have happened, can you believe it?
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Only after 16 hours did the first multicellular organisms appear, which is 8:30 in the evening.
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And at 20:31, of course, Gojo Satoru came in. The dinosaurs appeared around 22:48 and disappeared at 23:41.
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The first primates appeared at about 11:56 p.m. and its genus Homo (Homo habilis and Homo erectus) appeared at about 11:58 p.m.
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Modern man (Homo sapiens) appeared in the last seconds of the whole day - about 23 hours 59 minutes 40 seconds.
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Therefore, the history of mankind from the earliest civilizations to the present day fits into the last 20 seconds of a 24-hour day.
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And the history we know happened in the last second. Our history as a biological species takes up very little time on the entire time scale of life on Earth.
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After hearing this information, you will be a little calmed. In spite of that, we see ourselves, HUMANITY! - as the main character of the universe...
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What is a day in general? What is a clock? What about minutes and seconds? What is a year?
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Day, hour, minute and second are concepts invented by ourselves to make it easier to perceive and measure time.
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We created these units of time to organize our lives, plan our activities, and divide the day into certain parts.
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They help us synchronize our society, orient ourselves in space-time, work and rest. And what is a day?
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This is the time it takes for the Earth to make one full rotation, the process that determines the cycle of day and night.
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Hours, minutes and seconds are derivatives of this basic unit, designed for convenience in everyday life.
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And the year is a completely different concept, it comes from the complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
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However, it should be remembered that these units of time only apply to us, the inhabitants of the Earth.
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They only work in the context of our planet and our place in the solar system.
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If we lived on another planet, the concept of time would be completely different. For example, a day in Venus (as I said, a complete rotation of the planet around itself) is longer than a year in Venus - approximately equal to our 243 days.
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And one year in Venus, i.e., the full rotation of Venus around the Sun, is equal to our 225 days.
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Why is a day longer than a year? Terrific! Then Muslims would pray only five times a year, and Christians would go to church once in seven years.
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If you've been dying to move to Mars with Elon Musk's fans, here's what you should consider: A day on Mars is roughly the same as a day on Earth - 24 hours and 37 minutes.
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But a year is about 687 days long, which is almost twice as long as a year on Earth.
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On the other hand, you will spend less on birthdays and new years) What is time? Liquid, solid or gas?
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When we think about time, it seems obvious: we measure it with clocks and calendars, we plan our affairs, we remember the past, we dream about the future.
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But if we look a little deeper, it becomes clear that time is one of the most mysterious concepts for mankind.
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Time is one of the greatest mysteries in science, and there are several main theories that explain it.
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The first is Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which posits that time is not constant: it stretches or shortens and changes depending on the speed of motion and gravity.
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That's why astronauts in space age a little slower than us! If you take a different theory, you will understand that time, although it seems simple to us, is actually very complex.
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We analyzed some of the complex theories about time in our Telegram channel. You can read more there.
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Let's talk about how to travel in time, that is, in time space? There is no need for a time machine or a portal like in Rick and Morty.
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Would you believe it: to travel through time space, it is enough to cross the borders on the map.
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How does this work? Earth is divided into 24 time zones. each zone is either one hour ahead or one hour behind the neighboring zone.
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Thanks to them, for example, when you fly from New York to London, you "lose five hours", and when you fly back, you "return" them on the contrary.
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And when you cross the international solstice line in the Pacific Ocean, you go back to the previous day.
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For example, if you fly from Hawaii to the Samoan Islands - you will return to yesterday!
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How did people in general come up with time zones? Until the middle of the 19th century, time was defined differently in different places according to the position of the sun.
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However, with the development of the railroad and the telegraph, there was a need for a global system to coordinate time.
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In 1884, at the International Meridian Conference, the Greenwich meridian was adopted as the zero point, thus creating time zones.
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But consider this: if you think the Earth's time zones are neatly separated like a peeled tangerine, you'd be sorely mistaken.
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We cannot consider time zones outside the political and social context, it is a conditional concept.
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For example, in China, the entire country uses a single time, although the territory of China spans not one, but five time zones!
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From the point of view of ideology, this unified time represents the unity of the Chinese people and the integrity of the communist spirit.
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This reform was implemented in 1949 by order of Mao. That is, if you go to Khorgas, which is only 38 kilometers from Zharkent, you will lose 3 hours, but it will take only half an hour.
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But China also has its own nuances: the majority of the Chinese population is already concentrated under the same +8 time zone, which means that at least 60% of the Chinese population lives in the eastern part of the country.
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And in Antarctica, the time zone is meaningless: since there is no regular cycle of day and night, each research camp chooses its own time zone.
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In case of polar sun or polar night, Muslims also perform their religious rituals according to the time zone of the nearest country.
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A contract with God also has "ambiguities". Europe and North America also have daylight savings time (DST) and standard time (ST), which is the practice of moving clocks forward one hour in the spring and back one hour in the fall to make better use of sunlight and reduce artificial lighting costs.
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However, changing the clock affects the body's biological rhythm. Moving one hour itself can lead to the following consequences: - Increased stress and anxiety levels; - Increased risk of heart attack.
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According to one study, the risk of a heart attack increases by 24% on the first Monday after changing to summer time, and when returning to winter time, this risk decreases by 21%.
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- Increased frequency of traffic accidents due to sleep disorders. According to the US National Transportation Safety Institute, the number of traffic accidents increases by 6% on the first working day after daylight saving time.
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The most interesting thing is that there were summer time and winter time in Kazakhstan too!
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And in 2005, when the authorities said that they would remove them, they told us all these reasons.
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But now, (why?), they do not recognize that even one hour has a significant impact on health.
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Similarly, for countries located in several time zones covering a large area, moving to a single time can have adverse health effects.
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When the inhabitants of the eastern and western regions are forced to live with the same time, sunlight is not distributed equally: the inhabitants of the western regions may start the day in complete darkness, or on the contrary, it may get dark early in the eastern regions.
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This leads to a phenomenon called "social jetlag". For example, when the time zone is chosen incorrectly, people often suffer from cardiovascular diseases, chronic fatigue, depression and metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes.
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That is, even such an abstract concept as time cannot exist outside the political context of human existence.
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We have many, if not too many, traditions about time. Humanity celebrates winter and summer solstices, autumn and spring equinoxes.
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Look up any day on Wikipedia - it's full of holidays, commemorations and name days that correspond to that day.
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We have different calendars - this also shows how much mankind is fascinated with time.
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For example, it is now 1446 in Saudi Arabia according to the Hijri calendar, and 1403 in Iran according to the solar Hijri calendar.
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And regardless of what calendar our northern neighbors have, it's always 1937. We celebrate New Year every 365 days.
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But have you ever wondered when and why we started celebrating it? Our own New Year is, of course, Nauryz.
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After the Soviet Union and industrialization, we all moved to the Gregorian calendar used by the modern world.
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But in the past, the tradition of celebrating the New Year was completely different. In the Russian Empire, there was no New Year, Santa Claus or Snow White, instead Christmas was celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ.
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People remembered Mary and the Holy Spirit. But after the arrival of the Soviet Union, religious holidays were banned.
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In 1929, Christmas was abolished, as well as Christmas tree decoration, which was considered a "clergy tradition".
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THE NEW YEAR HAS BEEN CANCELED. However, at the end of 1935, an article called "Let's organize a good Christmas tree for the children!" was published in the newspaper "Pravda".
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Society, missing a beautiful and bright holiday, immediately accepted this idea: Christmas trees and decorations went on sale in stores.
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Pioneers and Komsomol members started organizing Christmas trees in schools, cultural centers and orphanages. Thus, on December 31, 1935, the Christmas tree returned to the homes of the citizens of the USSR.
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It has become a symbol of "happy childhood" in the country. Of course, childhood in the 1930s and 1940s could not be called happy, but people did what they could.
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Since 1949, January 1 has been declared an official holiday. The Soviet authorities turned Christmas into a secular holiday.
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A five-pointed star appeared instead of the Star of Bethlehem on the Christmas trees. This is not a bad or wrong thing, because traditions are always changing.
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Decorating the Christmas tree and gathering at the table with our family is a beautiful tradition that does no harm to anyone.
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When the calendar changes, when the "New Year" comes, there is another tradition to keep: New Year's plans, setting goals for the New Year, forming new habits, NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS - it's all about the New Year, us and time.
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Let's agree: in the coming year, you will set yourself one important goal - to extend your life.
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As mentioned at the beginning of this video, it may seem like there is still a lot of time ahead.
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But it is worth considering that even if you are in good health, you do not have much time.
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However, there is a simple and 100% working solution to this problem. Have you noticed that as you get older, time seems to speed up?
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A day used to seem long before, and summer vacation seemed endless. Waiting 45 minutes for the end of the lesson was incredibly difficult, even the minutes seemed to stand still.
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And now the 60-minute meeting goes by in the blink of an eye, and sometimes there is not enough time to discuss all the issues.
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Time flies so fast, it seems like years don't hold back. One of the most common psychological phenomena that explains this phenomenon is the "proportion effect".
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As children, we have little life experience, which means that each year and each day is a large part of our entire time.
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And as we grow older, each year becomes a smaller part of the total time of our life, giving us the impression that the years are "shortened".
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For example, for a five-year-old child, one year is about 20% of his life! Now I'm 26, a year is 4% of my life.
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Your brain processes new, unusual events slowly and in detail. As a child, everything around you was new for you: the world, nature, people.
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And when we grow up, we can't get out of the hustle and bustle of daily life, and every day seems monotonous.
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This "shortage of news" creates the impression that time is passing quickly, because when there are few events worth remembering, their time seems too short.
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You know one proof of it. Do you remember 2020? Do you remember how quickly it passed, the months flew by at an incredible speed?
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All of humanity felt it, not just you. Why? Because we were stuck at home, and each day seemed no different than the day before.
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Even if we left the house, we did not go outside the city or village where we lived.
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Now recall your short trips. Two or three days, or three or four days. There were moments when each of you went to Burabay or Kapchagay for just two or three days felt like a week, and when you went abroad for ten days it felt like a month, tell me?
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You may have found the answer to my riddle: the best way to prolong life is to travel.
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No need to go abroad! It can also be visiting new areas of your city or neighboring towns.
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For example, as a native of the capital, it was very interesting for me to explore cities like Qaragandy or Kokshetau.
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They are located only three to four hours from Astana. You can also visit the nearby countries: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia Georgia Azerbaijan.
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Due to the features of economic development in these countries, the prices are also very affordable for us.
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The main thing is new impressions, which "stretch" our perception of time and make our life meaningful. At the very least, instead of spending the whole day staring at your phone, try to make every day and every moment meaningful to you first and foremost.
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pay more attention to scientific and educational pages that offer a new world, new information, like ours, rather than empty talk and cheap gossip.
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Such interesting things)))) The year 2024 was full of news for us. We started our YouTube.
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Thank you very much to those of you who have been supporting us along the way, who have been listening to my speech until this moment of the video.
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We hope that we have made your half an hour more meaningful. Be healthy and safe in the new year.
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Happy 2025 to all of us!
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