Alva Noë explains why habits are a curse:
How do you count time in a marriage? In a career? In a research project? What is the measure of time during an illness? Not seconds, minutes, hours, days.
So now we come to the crux: time goes faster as you get older, but this is because, as a general rule, by the time we are older, we have settled in on the story lines and narrative arcs by which we structure our lives. …
Want to live forever? Break your habits. Do things you don’t know how to do and foreswear the routine.
The Dish 