Dr. Dale Whelehan

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, I'm really curious by this statement.

And once I became aware of it, I suddenly started seeing it everywhere.

Like, it's the...

You know, it's the family member who says they don't have time to go home.

It's the parents saying that they don't have the time to, you know, look after themselves while also looking after their kids.

And then there's work.

We don't have enough time to do all the work that we do.

So that's interesting, despite all the focus we've had on time management over the last however many decades.

All the money, all the efforts gone into improving people's relationship and management of their time.

And yet we probably are never as time bored as we are now.

I think it follows how management as a kind of discipline formed back in the early 1900s.

You kind of were able to kind of create different pockets of your work and therefore you could get more efficient and figure out how to do that.

But work has changed quite a lot in the last 20 years.

A lot of people work now in quite an unboundaried way.

So there is no start or formal end of the day.

There's also a lot more expected of them.

They have to use their brains a lot more than the past and having to come up with new solutions, innovations.

All that sort of stuff creates a higher level of cognitive load on people.