3-8 Activity: Time Blindness [5 mins]

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1. 3-8 Activity_ Time Blindness [5 mins] Wed, Apr 27, 2022 9:34AM 4:35 SUMMARY KEYWORDS brain, minutes, obstacles, activity, talk, swim lessons, module, calendar, bookends, overcome, long, winded, estimator, reasonable, space, drive, thinking, point, rhythms, estimate SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:00 Hey, there's this one, I'm out, we're in module three, this is Part Eight, I think. We're talking about our obstacles and sort of look at time blindness. This is a part of our ADHD brains, that just is a struggle, we don't have a good sense of how much time has passed or estimate how much time something will take us. But when we have that awareness, and we know, then we can prepare for that. Patricia Sung 00:23 One of the ways that I overcome this is thinking about the book ends, it is so hard for me to think about how much time it takes me to get out of the house and actually get somewhere and then into the building, my brain thinks that everything takes 15 minutes, and it doesn't matter, that literally, it will take 15 minutes just to get the kids shoes on and get them in the car. And I think I can get to the place in 15 minutes. That's not accounting for driving and getting out of the car and walking into the building and taking the elevator. So looking at those bookends, the time on the front, and the back end of activities will help us plan our calendar better. Patricia Sung 01:00 And also on the back end of like, how long is it gonna take us to drive home like, I think like, Okay, we left swim lessons at you know, swim lessons ends at 430. And my brain, I think we can be eating dinner at five, it's like, well, that's crazy talk, like, we gotta get on the pool, we got to dry off, we got to change, get in the car, drive home, unload everything, I still have to cook, we're not eating at five o'clock. But if I don't think about that ahead of time, my brain is like, Sure, by watching or sunscreen. That's something I have to put forth effort into calculating out ahead of time. I need that extra space walked through step by step where my brain says 15 minutes for everything. Patricia Sung 01:39
2. Patricia Sung 01:39 We also want to include here, our buffer time, is that if something doesn't go that amount of time, like say we think that meetings and it'd be an hour and it turns out to be an hour and 15 minutes, we want to give ourselves space and think about, hey, who's this person I'm meeting with? Are they long winded Do they like to talk and we're gonna be here a while and give yourself space on the calendar to allow that to not be a frustration point. Patricia Sung 02:01 Another helpful tip is to time yourself. When you get ready in the morning, you can start a timer and figure out how long does it actually take you to get ready in the morning, I was totally off, I was not even close. Timing these things that you do frequently and unusual often will allow you to become a better estimator over time, I am still not very good at this. And I have to next point ask for a friend's help. Thankfully, my husband is very good with time, which sometimes not in my favor. But I have to ask him, Okay, I think that this sounds reasonable. Can I do that? And he will pretty much 99% of time be like No, that's not reasonable, you need to give yourself an hour and 15 minutes you said 45 minutes. Patricia Sung 02:44 So asking someone who is good with time to help you with those will start to create that. That happened in that pattern for you. And we're gonna get Wade way deep into this into the in our next class about rhythms. But I do want you to start thinking about this because it does have a huge impact on the way that you schedule your day, if you're not thinking about those transition times and how much they actually take us because our brains just don't do it on their own. So we have to help them out. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Patricia Sung 03:19 So activity for today. And then we're gonna head again. Um, we have gone through a ton of obstacles. What I want you to do is take a moment and think about what are the ones that you know? Oh, yeah, for sure. I'm gonna have to deal with that. But also, what are the things that I didn't say? What things do you know that like you will run into? And you can use the notes that go along with this presentation and jot in the side of like, How can I overcome these obstacles based on my life and what I'm doing? And you can go into the Facebook group and ask for help. You know, you got the Google Form, you can send me a question. And that is your activity for today. Patricia Sung 03:59 This could be something that takes you somewhere between, you could take you just like two minutes, if you're super quick, all the way up to 1520 minutes of working through your obstacles. But I do want to spend a few minutes thinking about I know what to deal with these problems. What are some ideas of how I'm going to get around those. And then plan for when you watch the next set of videos and remind yourself of your motivation. There's a reason
3. we're here. There's a reason we're doing this and you are doing great. I'm so proud of you for getting through that. I know that was a long module. And yeah, you're doing great high five, and I'll see you soon.