{"id":681,"date":"2018-10-25T15:24:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=681"},"modified":"2019-02-23T02:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T07:46:33","slug":"the-return-trip-feels-shorter-because-of-freedom-not-familiarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2018\/10\/25\/the-return-trip-feels-shorter-because-of-freedom-not-familiarity\/","title":{"rendered":"The return trip feels shorter because of freedom, not familiarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"\/Common\/LazyLoadYTVids.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"ytembed\" id=\"biYd_f3QvyA\"><\/div>\n<p><script>loadYTThumb();<\/script><br \/>\n<!--<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"662\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/biYd_f3QvyA\" frameborder=\"0\">--><\/p>\n<p>That  explanation that psychologists came up with back in the 1950\u2019s is incredibly specious because it&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> the same on the return trip because everything is <em>backwards<\/em>. The roads are different (and might require a different route due to one-way streets), and all of the sights are different because you are seeing everything from the other side. It is a completely different experience. Also, unless this is the first time you&#8217;ve been to that location, then the <em>novel-there-familiar-back<\/em> explanation makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>A better explanation is that the trip there is likely under a deadline while the return trip is more free. The pressure of trying to stick to a schedule puts added stress on the brain and makes time feel lengthened like most stressful or unpleasant situations have a tendency to do. The freedom of making it back at your own pace (melting ice-cream notwithstanding), relieves you of that burden and so the trip feels shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That explanation that psychologists came up with back in the 1950\u2019s is incredibly specious because it&#8217;s not the same on the return trip because everything is backwards. The roads are different (and might require a different route due to one-way streets), and all of the sights are different because you are seeing everything from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}