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  • Rookamateur_ninja@mastodon.online
    May 6, 2026, 9:39 PM

    I promised my wife I'd shower before we left the house for a big event. Easy, right? The thought that I needed to shower held a first class ticket on my train of thought, so when the time came, I got into the shower, scrubbed like crazy and got out with a few minutes to spare.

    Then I realized drying off after the shower also takes time, and so does getting dressed, and so does all the other important stuff I didn't think about or do because I was so focused on making that shower happen...

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  • Rookamateur_ninja@mastodon.online
    May 6, 2026, 9:39 PM

    Why not simply start earlier? Why not leave earlier? Because suddenly there's an uncountable volume of 'not now' stretching between me and the next task, which means staring at the clock knowing full well that it will change the moment I look away. And because I know the clock will make a different face the next time I look at it, my working memory is clogged with monitoring instead of planning and I can't focus on the other things I know I should be doing.

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  • Rookamateur_ninja@mastodon.online
    May 6, 2026, 9:39 PM

    So yeah, "just be early" turns into exactly that: you're JUST early. You're not prepared for your speech, your lunch isn't packed and you probably stink, because being early happened to the detriment of everything else on your list.

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