Time is super weird. Today as I was trying to get to the airport and was delayed at every point, time seemed to fly. Then when I finally got to the airport for an International flight but the flight was not listed on any of the boards, time seem to surge forward ever faster and faster. Would I make it to the gate in time? What if I had to switch concourses again? What if I had to go all the way back to the rental car facility and start over??!!
This was real and urgent, though I can't explain it in a cogent fashion. Thankfully there was a great article today about time management, and how it is really consciousness management and you can read that whole article here, "The Paradox of Doing More" by Faisal Hoque and Drake Baer.
By the way, it only took 36 minutes from rental car return to departure gate in the real world . . . but I swear to God it felt like almost three hours and I would have bet a $1000 that it really was. Poor consciousness management.
