The Sun you see is 8 minutes old

Sunlight takes 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach your eye. So the Sun you see is the Sun from 8 minutes ago. Every time you look up you're time-travelling.

✦creativity move · reframe— ask the question a new way

✓observe

✦imagine

✎try

♡reflect

NASA / Land 1968 · the four moves creative kids make

step 1 · observe

did you know? ★

Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach your eyes — so the Sun you see is always 8 minutes old.
src: NASA

step 2 · imagine

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you

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zoom out →

Zoom out: the Sun, then the Milky Way (100+ billion stars), then 2 trillion galaxies.

step 3 · try

pick everything that feels true →

What does 'reframe' do to a boring fact?

Tip: if you pick something "wrong," that's not a fail — it's the most useful click of the day. Mistakes get saved to your Lab as trophies, never as shame.