Dr. Stephanie Sarkis

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.

You know that there's traffic.

You know you need to leave early, but somehow you still are not able to get out at the right time.

Or you think, you know what, this project's going to take me about 10 minutes to do, when in fact it's an hour.

It's a large discrepancy between what time should take and what you actually estimate it to be.

Well, that's the other thing that happens, that people are chronically early.

That's the part of time blindness that we don't really talk about as much, is that sometimes people will show up super early because they know they tend to run late.

And that's also not an efficient use of time, right?

So if you're sitting in a doctor's office for an hour early, there are other things you could do.

And you know that if you just go get some coffee and come back, you're still gonna be not arriving on time.

So it really hinders how people live their lives.

And so one of the things you can do is do adaptations, block schedule your calendar.

Also use timers.