Dr. Michaela Thorderson

Or I'm brushing my teeth and wait a second...

Do I need to be doing something with my eyebrow?

So we need those cushions to account for the fact that we can reliably expect ourselves to be distracted.

So if you are somebody who gets mildly distracted or slightly off task, you might factor in like five, 10 extra minutes of cushion into that morning routine.

If you're someone who is real slow moving in the morning or someone who is really highly distracted or has a very distractible environment in the morning, you might build in more like 15 to 20 minutes

So often, time blindness is so excruciating or confusing for us that we get really focused on what we're trying to do.

And it's a lot of effort to stay focused and stay on track and go step to step to step.

What we then think about afterwards is the impact it has downstream, right?

And a lot of those times, those impacts are social in nature.

So I get so distracted in my morning.

I'm late every day, even though I try so hard.

And what that ends up doing is creating resentments or kind of like feelings in my coworkers.

We needed you here on time.

We needed you at the start of this meeting.

That can generate anxiety in me.

I'm like, ah, what's it gonna be like when I get to work?

Ah, I'm not sure if I'm doing this well.

We can also think about tasks around the house that take a lot of time or more time than were anticipated.

And then we have frustrated partners and roommates.

We can think about social events, right?