Dr. Dale Whelehan

Yeah.

And we even think about, you know, there's a whole field of research called chronemics, which is about how you perceive your own time and also the time of others.

So when I arrive late, you might automatically assume that I don't value you, that I don't value your time, that I'm lazy.

But also if I was the person then who was arriving early, I'd probably do the exact same thing to you.

So we are constantly evaluating kind of social norms based on our relationship to time and ourselves and also to other people.

I think, yes, to be honest.

So I'm going to be doing some new work with IBAC and some large companies here in Ireland to try and get them to think different about time.

And what I'm proposing is what's called temporal intelligence.

So it's a different way of thinking about our relationship to time, marrying it much more with kind of psychology and physiology realities that we can't ignore.

And if we got a better relationship of how to organize our time to marry to those unignorable realities of just who we are as people, we could probably have a better relationship with time and probably be more productive.

And so I'll be working with them over the next few weeks to figure out what does that look like in practice.

Well, if you remember the term emotional intelligence came to the forefront maybe like 20 years ago.

Before that, people used to think, oh, you don't bring emotions into the workplace.

But obviously people do bring emotions.

We don't get to shut off all those parts of ourselves as much as we might like to when we step in here.

And so emotional intelligence said, OK, let's figure out how to bring this into work and harness it for, you know, good.

I'm basically doing the same thing about time.

We are constantly thinking about time.

the framework I'm talking about is, first of all, how do we become aware of some of the narratives about time that actually aren't serving us?

So being busy is being productive.