Eat slower and you actually taste your food. Speed makes most good things forgettable.

Speed costs you the experience of the thing. Food eaten in four minutes provides the calories and almost none of the pleasure, and the same goes for a song you half-hear or a walk you spend on your phone. Attention is what turns an event into a memory.

Slow one thing down today, on purpose, and give it your attention. Lunch is the easy one: put the phone down, taste the first three bites, notice when you stop noticing. It takes no extra time, only extra presence. The point is not the eating; it is finding out how much you have been missing.