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.
But time management is more about knowing how long you need to do activities and planing accordingly. You practice by doing an estimation, do the thing, see how long you took and next time correcting accordingly. And there is no shame in using alarm clocks to remind you of the important bits.
That said, mental conditions like ADHD can make this incredibly hard. But in general you don’t keep the clock in your head, you keep stuff in your head and look at the clock every now and then.
But to do those estimations you need a clock in your head.
People are different. Some are born with a working internal clock, some aren’t.
I think you’re one of the few people here who even understands the internal clock concept and I respect your opinion.
By that logic, any social skills are an unnatural state of mind. Or learning math. Or anything that you weren’t born with
People with good thyme management skills are well seasoned.
I don’t think this is true, or at least not true in all cases.
From what I’ve seen and talked about with friends who have poor time management skills, a big problem is they get distracted and don’t stay on task. Thinking about the clock doesn’t really enter into it in that case.
Not just the clock on the wall. The one in your head.
There is no clock in my head.
I’m a little confused what you mean by time management skills, now, too. Can you give an example of a scene that required them, and how it would look for someone with good skills and how it would look for someone with bad skills?
Like, I have a friend coming over around noon today. I need to shower and get dressed before they get here. That takes like half an hour. I might just set an alarm on my phone for like 11:15 so I remember. I’d set it to 11:15 to give myself some extra padding. I know I shouldn’t do anything that might take longer than the time available, like go for a long bike ride or start playing a video game that can’t be paused.
There’s not really any intrusive thoughts here.
You ever gotten sleepy? That’s nature’s clock.
That’s nature’s gas tank
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.
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.
I just make sure I arrive early so I don’t need to worry
