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# Why some people are always late - BBC REEL
# https://www.youtube.com/watch/uk-JuzGlSgs

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00:00:07.279 sorry
00:00:08.800 okay confession time i'm someone with a
00:00:11.679 slightly annoying tendency to be late
00:00:14.400 well slightly annoying for me very
00:00:16.480 annoying for everybody else okay this
00:00:18.960 video was supposed to come out in
00:00:20.400 january
00:00:21.600 yeah
00:00:22.640 but i'm not alone in being punctually
00:00:24.320 challenged a 2014 yougov survey found
00:00:26.880 that one in five americans are late to
00:00:28.800 work at least once a week actually us
00:00:31.199 millennials are worst at it so what's
00:00:33.600 going on are some of us just more
00:00:35.520 hardwired to be late than others
00:00:37.600 this is something author grace pacey
00:00:39.360 decided to look into to try and
00:00:40.960 understand her own struggle with
00:00:42.239 punctuality in terms of personalities
00:00:44.879 it's a bell curve at one end of the
00:00:46.800 scale there are people i call time
00:00:48.719 keepers
00:00:49.840 who are anxious to be early and at the
00:00:51.520 other end of the scale i call us time
00:00:53.920 benders a time bender doesn't like
00:00:56.840 routine we don't like tasks that are
00:00:59.359 familiar we get bored pretty easily we
00:01:02.239 can focus really well when we're
00:01:03.920 interested in something and if time is
00:01:05.920 tight we can work really effectively if
00:01:08.400 you wanted to walk into an office and
00:01:09.840 pick the time benders they are the ones
00:01:11.600 with the messy discs because
00:01:14.080 they don't finish one thing before
00:01:16.720 starting another okay not gonna lie that
00:01:19.680 does sound a lot like me and quite a lot
00:01:22.400 of this seems to be baked into our
00:01:23.920 personalities so are there particular
00:01:26.159 personality traits that might be leading
00:01:28.320 us to be more regularly late
00:01:30.400 when it comes to lateness one of the
00:01:32.240 major personality traits is
00:01:33.920 conscientiousness
00:01:35.439 now conscientiousness is one of the big
00:01:37.439 five personality traits along with
00:01:39.200 things like agreeableness and
00:01:40.479 extroversion so it's really important
00:01:42.399 you can measure it by asking people
00:01:43.840 questions about kind of how how tidy
00:01:45.680 they are how organized they are one of
00:01:47.680 the questions does concern whether
00:01:49.119 they're punctual you know all of these
00:01:50.799 things about whether you're a kind of
00:01:52.159 very ordered person right so perhaps i'm
00:01:55.280 just not a very conscientious person but
00:01:57.920 i can't help but feel maybe there's more
00:01:59.840 going on in my head with the way that
00:02:01.439 i'm able to keep track of time
00:02:03.680 grace pacey thinks that those of us who
00:02:05.200 are time benders
00:02:06.880 experience time in a different way to
00:02:08.639 others we have a different perception of
00:02:11.280 time to most people every minute isn't
00:02:14.319 the same length for us time can speed up
00:02:16.560 and slow down
00:02:18.239 we can get deeply engrossed in something
00:02:20.959 and not be aware of time at all
00:02:23.360 on the other hand if we have a deadline
00:02:25.760 we can work really effectively
00:02:28.400 interestingly a 2016 study by washington
00:02:31.360 university psychologists found something
00:02:33.760 similar they looked into our ability to
00:02:35.840 mentally measure time which they
00:02:37.680 described as our time-based prospective
00:02:40.319 memory in an experiment the subject had
00:02:42.560 a set time to complete a task and even
00:02:44.640 had a clock they were allowed to check
00:02:46.400 however the tasks were designed to be
00:02:48.560 engrossing to distract people from clock
00:02:50.800 watching their results were clear some
00:02:53.280 people were naturally better at
00:02:54.959 estimating the passing of time and using
00:02:57.280 those memories to effectively plan in
00:02:59.040 the future what frustrates me though is
00:03:01.120 that i'm not late for everything
00:03:03.120 i never miss planes i'm pretty good of
00:03:04.720 trains
00:03:06.000 but getting my daughter to nursery on
00:03:07.680 time each day or turning up on time for
00:03:09.599 social gatherings is always a struggle
00:03:12.000 one of the most
00:03:13.519 revealing things that came out of my
00:03:15.360 research
00:03:16.800 was that we're not late for everything
00:03:20.000 we can be on time
00:03:21.920 when it matters
00:03:23.840 and what that means to us is that there
00:03:26.080 are consequences for our being late the
00:03:28.400 times when we slip into our worst time
00:03:31.840 bending and when there are no firm
00:03:33.519 deadlines and no consequences and that
00:03:36.159 tends to be for social events
00:03:40.080 so
00:03:41.040 when we say i can be on time when it
00:03:43.440 matters
00:03:45.360 we can be very
00:03:46.799 hurtful to the people in our lives who
00:03:49.360 matter
00:03:50.480 because they are the ones that see us
00:03:52.400 always being late i think it's really
00:03:54.560 helpful
00:03:55.599 to recognize the power of deadlines and
00:03:58.239 how important it is that they are real
00:04:01.599 external and have consequences just
00:04:04.239 asking for a deadline or even suggesting
00:04:06.239 a deadline puts it out there in the real
00:04:08.640 world and therefore we take it seriously
00:04:11.280 we cannot pluck a deadline from the air
00:04:13.599 and work to it it has to have
00:04:15.120 consequences as it's our friends who
00:04:17.519 often feel the full force of our
00:04:19.358 lateness most friendship groups usually
00:04:21.519 have that person who is known as being
00:04:23.680 the late one if yours doesn't then it's
00:04:26.240 probably you however these social
00:04:28.880 expectations can make the problem worse
00:04:32.160 if you know people are expecting you to
00:04:33.919 be late it's more likely that you will
00:04:35.840 be
00:04:36.639 one problem with people who might be
00:04:38.320 known for being late is that they just
00:04:40.240 assume that's something that's so much a
00:04:41.759 part of their genes and their makeup
00:04:43.600 that they don't even try to kind of
00:04:45.120 correct the behavior so it's really in
00:04:47.199 this way that our kind of beliefs about
00:04:48.880 ourselves can become a self-fulfilling
00:04:50.880 prophecy um and that can actually be
00:04:53.280 quite self-sabotaging when with a bit of
00:04:55.520 effort we might be able to change and
00:04:57.680 it's that idea that we can choose to
00:04:59.919 change our personality that our
00:05:01.680 personality traits aren't set in stone
00:05:04.000 destined from birth but rather can be
00:05:06.320 malleable that's one of the most
00:05:07.840 exciting recent developments in
00:05:09.360 psychology
00:05:10.639 for example some studies have shown that
00:05:12.320 i could train myself to be more
00:05:13.840 conscientious
00:05:15.600 these studies have tended to last you
00:05:17.280 know a few weeks to a few months they
00:05:19.600 try to get the participants to just do
00:05:21.600 things like form a detailed schedule for
00:05:23.600 each day
00:05:25.039 to kind of you know set aside a time to
00:05:26.880 kind of organize their desk if that's
00:05:29.039 messy their room if that's messy you
00:05:31.039 know all of these things that we know
00:05:32.320 that people with natural high trait
00:05:34.320 conscientiousness do and they might lack
00:05:36.880 and what happens is that just by
00:05:38.160 practicing those things and kind of
00:05:39.440 being a bit more conscious about when
00:05:41.280 you do them um it just forms these kinds
00:05:44.240 of mental habits it just helps to kind
00:05:46.479 of retrain the brain a little bit so
00:05:48.880 being a time bender is to some degree
00:05:51.440 part of our personality and some of us
00:05:53.680 might be better at mentally keeping
00:05:55.759 track of time than others however that
00:05:57.919 doesn't mean we have to accept that we
00:05:59.360 will forever be the late one
00:06:01.759 by setting ourselves meaningful
00:06:03.280 deadlines with consequences and by
00:06:06.080 retraining certain behaviors we can
00:06:08.639 alter our personality and hopefully
00:06:10.960 improve our punctuality
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00:06:13.840 oh damn sorry i gotta
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