Originally published in Great Britain in 2012 by Canongate Books, Ltd

The time illusion -- Mind clocks -- Monday is red -- Why time speeds up as you get older -- Remembering the future -- Changing your relationship with time

Time rules our lives, but how much do we understand it? Is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience,and biology, and using original research on the way memory shapes our understanding of time, the author delves into the mysteries of time perception, offering insight into how to manage our time more efficiently, how to speed time up and slow it down at will, how to plan for the future with more accuracy, and how to use the warping of time to our own benefit