I don’t think I agree with what you think “time management” skills are.
Isn’t it the opposite? If you lack time management skills you need to constantly be aware of the time, while someone else does it without having to, and without needing to spend mental resources on it.
Ah, but that’s how you DEVELOP those skills in the first place. That’s the trick. They didn’t magically wake up knowing the movement of the clock gears. This is an unnatural state of mind. A forced mental distress.
By that logic, any social skills are an unnatural state of mind. Or learning math. Or anything that you weren’t born with
The precise clocks that didn’t exist until what like 1000 years ago ? are more unnatural than the presence of other people who’ve been there for at least hundreds of thousands of years.
Uh, no, not really. If you’re feeling any kind of anxiety you’re doing it wrong. The only time I’ve ever had to watch the clock is during really, really boring classes and presentations.
Time management has very little to do with what time it is, counter-intuitively. Just like budgeting doesn’t really have much to do with the size of your net worth.
Have you considered getting evaluated for ADHD? (One of us, one of us!)
I once played Civilization for 3 days straight. I’m not sure I have this.
It’s pretty common for people with ADHD to be able to play video games for a long time, because games are designed to make the brain pump out dopamine.
Up to you whether to get an assessment, ofc, but time blindness is a really common symptom. Your OP and others’ responses sounded really familiar to me.
Example, I recently had an argument over what a habit is. The other party claimed it’s something you do without thinking about choosing it, like muscle memory. Which I still insist is bullshit because everyone knows a habit is when you feel weird not doing the task, and the urge to avoid the wrong feeling makes you remember the task and outweighs the urge to be lazy. (Apparently this isn’t how it works for normal people?)
lmao yes dude you have it. fucking civilization for three days of course you have it
You’re describing OCD not time management skills
My theory is that to develop time management you have to induce a kind of OCD and we’ve normalized it in society so we don’t recognize this.
Well, to be classified as a disorder a behavioral pattern has to be maladaptive
Interesting
