Surviving Trump: The 1,440 Model

How to Turn Every Day Into 1,440 Opportunities to Influence, Resist, and Protect Democracy

Surviving Trump: The 1,440 Model

How to Turn Every Day Into 1,440 Opportunities to Influence, Resist, and Protect Democracy

The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #654: Wednesday, November 19th, 2025.

The Cruel Trick Your Brain Has Been Playing On You

You’ve been conditioned…trained…to think in terms of years.

“Last year…”
“This year…”
“Next year…”
“What a year that was.”
“A new year is starting.”

And because of that conditioning… your brain compresses life into massive blocks.

To your mind…a year doesn’t feel like:

• 525,600 minutes

• 8,760 hours

• 365 separate days of lived experience

It feels like 1 unit of time.

One mental label.
One blurry “folder” of memories.

That means your brain processes:

10 years = 10 units of time.
60 years = 60 units of time.

And that’s why your life feels like it’s flying past you.

You’ve been using the wrong unit.

You’ve been measuring your existence with a ruler…so oversized…that it erases the details…the texture…the richness…the vividness of your actual lived moments.

Your brain isn’t aging too fast.
Your perception….is shrinking too small.

And today…we’re going to fix that.

The Jack Hopkins Solution:

Think in 1,440s…1 Unit Days…

There are 1,440 minutes in a day.
You can treat each one as a discrete…high-resolution moment…a “unit of life” your brain can actually process.

This does three extraordinary things:

1. It Slows Down Your Entire Life Experience

Smaller time units = more mental detail.
More detail = richer perception.
Richer perception = slower subjective time.

When you think:

“I have 1,440 opportunities today”
instead of
“I have one day”

…your mind expands the moment…not collapses it.

2. It Gives You Back Emotional Control

A bad year feels crushing.
A bad day feels heavy.
A bad minute…is survivable.

When you shrink your unit of experience…you shrink your unit of suffering.

Every minute becomes a reset point.

3. It Creates Intensity, Focus, and Presence

Years make people lazy.
Minutes make people precise.

When you shift to the 1,440 Model…you start asking:

• What am I doing with this minute?

• What’s the intention of this next block of time?

• What tiny action moves my day forward?

Small units create momentum.
Momentum creates transformation.

4. It Rewires Your Perception of Progress

Most people feel behind because they only measure progress annually.

But if you track in minutes?

You realize you have dozens…of meaningful micro-wins…every single day.

The 1,440 Model…turns your life into a scoreboard you’re constantly building…not a calendar you’re constantly chasing.

5. It Makes Your Life Feel Longer…and Your Agency Feel Bigger

This isn’t woo-woo.
This is neuroscience.

The brain slows its perceived passage of time when:

• attention is high

• detail is rich

• units are small

• moments are consciously noticed

The 1,440 Model hits all four.

You won’t just feel like life is slower.
It actually becomes richer…sharper…and more under your command.

THE PRACTICE (Simple, Powerful)

Every morning:

Say to yourself:
“I have 1,440 units today.”

Throughout the day:

When you feel rushed…overwhelmed…or disconnected…remind yourself:
“This is one minute. I get 1,439 more.”

At night:

List 5 minutes that mattered.
Not 5 tasks.
5 minutes.

You’re training your mind…to perceive life in high resolution.

The Identity Statement

This is the part your subscribers will latch onto:

“Most people count years.
The Inner Circle counts minutes.”

That line alone…can become part of your culture.

THE 1,440 MODEL

Why Your Life Feels Like It’s Racing Past You…And How to Slow It Down Starting Today

A Mental Mastery Deep Dive

There’s a quiet tragedy most people never realize until late in life…
and by then…the cost is already carved into them.

It’s the reason so many people wake up at 50, 60, 70 and say things like:

• “Where did the time go?”

• “How did life go by so fast?”

• “I swear the last decade disappeared.”

And they’re not being dramatic.
They’re describing an actual psychological phenomenon…one that has nothing to do with the clocks on the wall and everything to do with how the human brain experiences time.

Today, I’m going to give you a mental model that rewires that.

A model that slows your life down.
Expands your sense of time.
Gives you back the minutes the world has been stealing from you.

Once you understand it…your life won’t just feel different…
it will feel longer.

Let’s begin.

The Cruel Trick Your Brain Has Been Playing On You

You’ve been conditioned…trained…to think in terms of years.

“Last year…”
“This year…”
“Next year…”
“What a year that was.”
“A new year is starting.”

And because of that conditioning… your brain compresses life into massive blocks.

To your mind, a year doesn’t feel like:

• 525,600 minutes

• 8,760 hours

• 365 separate days of lived experience

It feels like 1 unit of time.
One mental label.
One blurry “folder” of memories.

(Wait…does it feel like you’ve already…encountered this…before…now…you have…above…in the beginning? )

Just disregard the “funny talk,” and realize something important is happening…for you…cognitively…now…we can proceed.

That means your brain processes:

10 years = 10 units of time.
60 years = 60 units of time.

And that’s why your life feels like it’s flying past you.

You’ve been using the wrong unit.

You’ve been measuring your existence with a ruler so oversized that it erases the details, the texture, the richness, the vividness of your actual lived moments.

Your brain isn’t aging too fast.
Your perception is shrinking too small.

And today…we’re going to fix that.

The Jack Hopkins Discovery: The 1,440 Model

A few years ago, I realized something simple…but profound enough to rewire the way I experience life:

A year is one unit.

A day is 1,440 units.

Same amount of time.
Radically different psychological impact.

When your mind treats a year as a single conceptual block…your life speeds by like you’re looking out the window of a train.

But when you divide your experience into the smallest meaningful unit…one minute…

…your life slows back down.
…your moments become vivid.
…your mind becomes present.
…your perception becomes richer.
…your memory becomes sharper.

And once you see this…you can’t unsee it.

Let me break down exactly how this works.

Why The 1,440 Model Changes Your Entire Life

1. It slows the subjective speed of time.

Psychologists know this:
The smaller the “unit” of time your mind uses…the slower time feels.

Kids live moment to moment.
Their time units are small.
Time feels infinite.

Adults live year-to-year.
Their time units are massive.
Time feels like it evaporates.

Reintroduce small units → slow life down.

This model puts you back in control of your internal clock.

2. It increases presence.

Years are abstract.
Minutes are real.

When your mind pays attention to minutes instead of years…you begin noticing the details again:

• the sensation of breath

• the sound of your environment

• the tone of someone’s voice

• the colors in a room

• the texture of a moment

Presence isn’t magic.
It’s attention…divided into small pieces.

3. It reduces overwhelm instantly.

A “bad year” feels unbearable.
A “bad month” feels heavy.
A “bad day” feels difficult.
A “bad minute”… is tolerable.

Thinking in minutes shrinks suffering.

Because the truth is this:

You don’t have to get through the year.
You only have to get through…the next minute.

This is how soldiers…trauma survivors…ER doctors…and people under intense pressure stay functional:

They shrink time until they can handle it.

The 1,440 Model gives you that power on command.

4. It amplifies emotional resilience.

The quicker you can reset emotionally, the stronger you get.

When you operate in yearly or monthly units, you feel locked into a mood:

• “This is just a bad year.”

• “This month is ruined.”

• “Nothing is working today.”

But when you operate in minute units…you get 1,440 chances to reset every single day.

Every minute…becomes a new doorway.

You become harder to break.

5. It increases your sense of control… dramatically.

People suffer the most when they feel powerless.

The 1,440 Model gives you micro-authority over your life.
You can’t control a year.
You can’t always control a day.

But you can control a minute.

And when you take command of enough small units…
the big units take care of themselves.

People Throw Away Their Lives By Thinking Too Big

“People fail because they think in big chunks. Winners think in small chunks at high speed.”

When you think in years, you delay action.
When you think in minutes, you execute.

You stop waiting for:

• the right year

• the right month

• the right season

• the right window

• the right mood

And you start asking:

“What can I do with the next 3 minutes?”

That’s where momentum comes from.

The Hopkins Reality Check

My grandfather taught something most people never fully grasp:

“Time is the only resource you can’t replace, but the only one people treat like they have an infinite supply of.”

That’s because they think in years.

A year feels like a fortune.
A minute feels like cash in your pocket.

And people take better care of what they can feel.

This mental model makes time feel real again.

THE 1,440 PRACTICE (The Blueprint)

Here’s the part your readers will use immediately.

This isn’t conceptual.
This is mechanical.

Every morning:

Say to yourself:

“I have 1,440 units today.”

Not “I have a day.”
Not “I have 24 hours.”

You have 1,440 opportunities.

Your brain will react differently.
You’ll feel like you’ve suddenly acquired time.

Throughout the day:

Ask:

• “What am I doing with this minute?”

• “What micro-action would move my day forward?”

• “What emotion do I want in the next minute?”

• “What can I reset right now?”

This creates a high-resolution life.

At night:

Recall five minutes that mattered.

Not five tasks.
Not five hours.

Five minutes.

You’re teaching your brain to store your life in detail…not in vague yearly boxes.

The Transformation: What Happens After 30 Days

Most people who adopt this model report:

• more presence

• more calm

• slower days

• sharper memories

• deeper engagement

• less emotional volatility

• more momentum

• less regret

• greater appreciation

• more intentional living

• less “time slipping away”

Your life literally feels longer.

Not metaphorically.
Not romantically.
Neurologically.

The Identity Statement For You

“Most people count years.
The Inner Circle counts minutes.”

Why I’m Giving You This Now

The next 18 months are going to test people:

• psychologically

• emotionally

• politically

• socially

• mentally

• spiritually

Time is going to feel noisy…compressed, chaotic.

This model is how you stay centered through all of it.

It’s how you stay human while the country loses its grip.

It’s how you remain effective when others collapse.

It’s how you stay sane when the headlines go insane.

This is emotional survival.
This is strategic clarity.
This is mental armor.

And it starts with the smallest unit of power you have:

One minute.

I’ll Leave You With This

Your life isn’t moving as fast as it feels.
Your perception of time…is what got hijacked.

Take it back.

Think in 1,440s.
Live in 1,440s.
Reclaim your life in 1,440s.

Your days will stretch.
Your mind will deepen.
Your presence will expand.
Your resilience will strengthen.

And the world around you…won’t feel so overwhelming anymore.

This is the model.
Use it.
Share it.
Build your next chapter with it.

Because starting today…

…you don’t live in years anymore.
You live in minutes…all 1,440 of them.

Back soon,

-Jack

P.S. No…I didn’t accidentally write some passages twice. Anything you encountered… that might have seemed that way…you can trust…fully…was very intentional…and done…for your benefit. The brain is a learning machine.

Whenever it is you decide to sleep again…sleep well.