Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

I look forward and I say, this task will take one hour.

Then what happens if I'm neurotypical is I go over here, I complete the task.

So I end up completing the task.

The task is done.

Then what happens is my brain has this really interesting capacity where it's able to look back and say, oh my God, that didn't take an hour.

That only took 30 minutes.

I had to work on my resume.

Turns out, and I'm sure you've experienced this before, turns out that it took way less time than I thought.

Or the opposite can happen, where I thought it would only take one hour, and it ends up taking 1.5 hours, right?

Both are options.

The key thing is that we have a time estimation capability, and we have a retrospective, i.e.

looking in the past, time perception capability as well.

So our brain has this part that looks into the past and says, okay, how long did this end up taking?

Now, if this is impaired, let's think about what the effect is.

So if I cannot do this...

then how am I supposed to form my estimates, right?

So if I do a task, oh, I think it's going to take one hour, ends up taking 30 minutes.

Now, the next time I have this task to do, my brain is like, oh, we know this takes 30 minutes, right?

So if my retrospective time perception is intact, this will allow me to make a estimate that is accurate.

So if I have an accurate estimate, then this solves all these other problems that we were talking about, about getting started and estimating that things take too long and undervaluing our time and all that kind of stuff, right?