{"id":227,"date":"2025-11-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucainfante.xyz\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T11:21:23","slug":"three-months-or-three-years-the-time-of-mental-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucainfante.xyz\/?p=227&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Three months or three years? The time of mental transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the last three months, I’ve changed more than I thought possible. I’ve unlocked thoughts, strategies, well-being. And I asked myself, even on objectively complex days: “But is this plausible in such a short time? Am I delusional?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By my nature, I started reading, studying, and thinking. And I found the answer in an unexpected place: physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The physics of time<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Richard Feynman’s book on physics lectures is wonderful. Suitable even for those who don’t know the subject, it opens the mind. Quantum physics, in its complexity and granularity, moves you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it’s there that I began to realize, with scientific confirmation, something fundamental: the physical timeline flows in only one direction.<\/strong> Today we know it’s irreversible. It only moves forward. It doesn’t go back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time we measure is based on particle oscillations that determine the minimal unit from which seconds, minutes, hours derive. It’s objective. It’s measurable. It’s beyond our control.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three levels of time<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

But time is not just physical. There are three levels we must distinguish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physical time:<\/strong> It advances. Period. Irreversible and inexorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biological time:<\/strong> This also advances, but how<\/em> depends on us. Being 43 years old doesn’t mean we all have the same biological situation. We see this by observing people around us: those who live differently age differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perceptual time:<\/strong> And this is where everything changes. This is where we can shape time to our will, without affecting the physical timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metacognition and perceptual time<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The work I’ve done with metacognition<\/a>, if I looked at it with yesterday’s eyes, would make me exclaim: “Impossible in such a short time.” But observing it with today’s eyes, I answer:\u00a0“Absolutely and scientifically plausible.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are mental processes. Metacognition, by its nature, tends to amplify them with an exponential curve. And mental processes operate on perceptual time, not physical time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one hour of metacognition you can do mental work that would normally take months.<\/strong> It’s cognitive temporal compression. Not magic. Mechanics of the mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three months can be worth years of growth. Not because physical time accelerates, but because the density of mental processing compresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t be afraid to dare<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Remembering this distinction can help us not give up and dare to do many of the things we want<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if we observe with pragmatism, we understand where:<\/p>\n\n\n\n