"The opposite can also happen. When we have to complete a task we don’t want to do, every minute feels like a lifetime and we can’t stop looking at our watch. As the quip attributed to [[Albert Einstein]] goes, “**Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That is relativity**.”" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[relativity]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], [[discipline]] **Source** -- [[202501221126 - B - Ikigai]]