Sat 27 Aug 2005
Are you always in a hurry?
Posted by Prakash under General
[3] Comments
We often find there are people who always seems to be in a hurry. It may appear that they are hard working since they are trying to squeeze maximium out of time, but in reality they may be inefficient and may be cutting it too close!.
Seth Godin’s blog has an interesting post:
There are two ways to catch a plane. The first, which happens to be the most common, is to leave on time, do your best to park nearby, repeatedly glance at your watch, and then start moving faster and faster. By the time you get to security, you realize that you’re quite late, so you cut the line (“My plane leaves in 10 minutes!” you shout). You walk fast. As you get closer to your gate, you realize that walking fast isn’t going to work, so you start to jog. Three gates away, you break into a run, and if you’re lucky, you barely make the flight.
The second way is to leave for the airport 10 minutes early.
So don’t always be in a hurry, and don’t take the stress! Murphy’s law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
November 28th, 2005 at 1:48 am
I beg to disagree.
In a resource (read time) constrained world, Just-in-Time as a strategy for maximum resource utilisation has been practised and prefected by Japanese firms and incorporated by most others over the last 50 years. Not without a good reason.
Lets take the same example discussed by Seth…
I take a flight atleast twice a week. So by not leaving 10 minutes early for the airport, I’ll save 20 mins a week i.e. 80 mins a month i.e. 960 mins a year. Which is a whopping 16 hours or two working days.
Also, the 10 minutes suggested by Seth is pretty conservative. I believe to be totally sure the buffer should be 20 minutes. Which would mean you lose 4 days per year. Dunno about the rest, but for me thats a lot of precious time!
Murphy’s law: If anything can go wrong, it will…. even if we leave 20 minutes early 🙂
April 12th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Guys. I am fucking always in a hurry and don’t know what to do! I always take everything one myself and try to carry it at once. But if I start doing anything I speed up like hell and I get overly excited. So where does logic come into play when it is all about your soul? How do you solve that?
June 12th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
my brain tell me to hurry up and do nothing