A Trend
I went in for an MRI on my shoulder today. It's bothered me (slightly) for years.
I didn't realize that orthopedists have a new gig now, or their offices do, at least: performance training. All those "certified" personal trainers, many of whom are more salesman than trainers, are now going to have to compete with major orthopedic centers.
I mean, it makes sense, having it all together. But personal trainers were a huge cottage industry, and lots of those jobs will dry up now because orthopedists want a big chunk of the business.
Also, there's this: ‘Am I just an asshole?’ Time blindness can explain chronic lateness - some of the time.
Remember the investigation we did a few months ago into people's perception of the length of a minute? It was uniformly true that people who were always on time consistently knew, within ten percent, the length of a minute without looking at a clock. The people who weren't on time, in contrast, were all over the place.
Apparently, it's an actual thing:
When Shepard learned about time blindness as a symptom of ADHD, which she has, it all clicked. Russell Barkley, a former clinical psychologist and expert on ADHD, coined the term in 1997 to describe what he calls “the serious problem people with ADHD have with governing their behavior relative to time intervals and the passage of time more generally”. Time blindness can be a symptom of ADHD or other conditions such as anxiety or autism spectrum disorder.
This is different from "time optimists," or people who consistently underestimate how long it takes to do something.
Some people still do it on purpose, of course. Those guys. I avoid them.
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