Dr. Stephanie Sarkis

Thanks for having me.

I think when we think of choice, we have to be kind of careful with that because when we are running late or we are getting in trouble with friends or family because of our time perception issues,

is different or in school you're waiting until the last minute to get projects done, sometimes there's a moral thing of, well, if you just tried harder, if you just worked more at what you're doing, if you weren't lazy.

So I think that when people run late, they generally do want to be on time.

Who doesn't want to please their partner or friends or

So we need to look at the fact that this might be related to issues with the brain, particularly executive functions, which are in the frontal lobe.

It depends.

It depends.

Some people have procrastination that has a brain back reason for it.

And some people have procrastination that is related to other stuff.

So it really depends on what the other things that we're seeing at the same time.

So if it's a cluster of things like.

Difficulty showing up on time, difficulty estimating how much time it takes to get projects done, difficulty with seeing the timeline of time.

So things are either now or not now.

When you look at that cluster of things, then we look at possibly timeliness.

When you have time blindness, you will be in a room without a clock, and somebody will ask you, how much time do you think has passed?

And you either over or underestimate, and it's by a lot.

So it's not just that you're overestimating or underestimating five minutes.

We're talking, you know, 15, 20, 30 minutes.

You have a schedule.