#Microblog Monday 463: Time Pessimist
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An article in the Guardian explained that time optimists are perpetually late because they always optimistically think they’ve left enough time for something, and they haven’t.
While the article talks about timebenders and timekeepers, they don’t discuss time pessimists. I always think something will take longer than it does, so I’m often too early. I pessimistically Eyeore my way into starting a task, thinking it will take an hour, and then discover that the whole thing took eight minutes.
Are you a time optimist or pessimist?
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6 comments
Pessimist.
Time pessimist.
I’m still so used to city traffic that I am always early wherever I go now. But at least I’m not late! I used to be late, but the game changer for me was realizing that I only have 60 seconds to be on time. So since I apparently can’t be on time, I try to be early.
I’m both, if that doesn’t sound crazy. I’m a time optimist when it comes to doing things I like doing and know how to do – even as simple as cooking dinner. I often think something will take me ten minutes when, because I do other things (clean the kitchen bench, etc), it takes me 20. You can put blogging into that category too. But I’m a time pessimist when it comes to a) getting to the airport, b) doing my taxes or cleaning up (I think it will take forever, so I put it off!), etc. I was also somewhat brainwashed into being an optimist in Bangkok, which in the 1990s had notoriously horrendous traffic. The traffic was so unpredictable that the norm was to be late, and being early or even right on time was almost rude!
What a lovely way to describe how I am never good with time! A Time Optimist sounds so much sunnier than Time Blindness. 🙂 I always, always think that I have more time than I actually do. And if I plan ahead and get ready early, I somehow manage to stretch that time and still end up past the deadline. Sigh. Time Optimist is my new favorite term though!
Pessimist, for sure.
I’m definitely a time optimist! I used to be perpetually late but i’ve gotten much better as now I will try to over estimate how long things will take