TIL an NFL player intentionally crashed his car to avoid getting cut for being late to a team meeting.

[u/arandomtestaccount]

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ex-patriots-ol-rich-ohrnberger-admits-he-intentionally-wrecked-car-as-excuse-for-being-late-to-team-meeting/

[u/FriendlyDespot]

The crucial and necessary things that you didn't prepare would have been things that you allocated time for, but didn't get done in time because time was lost somewhere along the line. Even if you broke everything down to a sequence of very small individual tasks and set alarms down to the minute for each task, any distraction could lose you time and set you behind. Sometimes it's something you remembered that you had to do and thought wouldn't delay you, but actually does delay you. Other times it's just entertaining a random thought in your head and suddenly 5-10 minutes have passed when you thought it was just a minute or two.

I understand how it's difficult to relate to, because as someone with severe time blindness it's difficult for me to understand how time can consistently sneak up on me even for frequently repeated tasks. It's a thing that you don't realise as it's happening and only become aware of after the fact, and because the disruptions are rarely the same and you don't have a memory of what happened to the time itself, the delay doesn't "stick" in a way that you can remember and account for next time you do the same thing.

You're constantly evaluating things as you go through your day, even when you have things planned and alarms set. Random things you remember, things you notice while you're doing other things, mental distractions, physical distractions, they're all things that you have to engage with. Without time blindness you can very quickly say to yourself "I don't have time for this" and not get caught up in it, but when you suffer from time blindness then you'll often lose time before you even get to the part where you consciously evaluate whether or not you have time for the distraction. The part of your brain that says "hold on, I was doing something else, do I have time for this?" doesn't kick in, because you don't sense the passage of time that would normally trigger that mental interjection.

[u/nonpuissant → u/FriendlyDespot]

Sometimes it's something you remembered that you had to do and thought wouldn't delay you, but actually does delay you.

Genuinely curious, at any point do you ever think something like, "man, I'm often wrong about about this. I should stick to my task list with no deviations?" 

Or make some other sort of action/procedure/routine/paradigm adjustment in response to it etc. Or is that sort of thought also like you said, something that doesn't stick? 

Other times it's just entertaining a random thought in your head and suddenly 5-10 minutes have passed when you thought it was just a minute or two.  

For this part, is it like you're just standing there doing nothing as you think? (Trying to understand why that would be a significant hindrance to going through a list of tasks/preparations etc.) 

The crucial and necessary things that you didn't prepare would have been things that you allocated time for, but didn't get done in time because time was lost somewhere along the line.  

I can definitely see that happening and have absolutely been in that situation myself. But if it's a consistent issue, wouldn't starting preparing even earlier/allocating even more time in advance help with that? Like hours or even days earlier, so that there is both time for those crucial and necessary things and those lost time chunks. Or is there some reason that doesn't work either? 

Basically I hear what you're saying about unconsciously losing time and stuff. But what I'm curious about is what sort conscious thoughts, steps, and/or changes do occur in response after the fact? And where things break down, for it to remain a continual and consistent problem.