{"id":25561,"date":"2020-01-17T16:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25561"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:15:28","slug":"on-being-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/17\/on-being-early\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being Early"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrice Lewis links to a Guardian story “Beat the Clock: The Surprising Psychology Behind Being Perpetually Late<\/a>“, and she (Ms. Lewis) asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So what end of the spectrum do you hit? Are you early or late? And what’s your logic\/reasoning\/motive behind it? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am on the early side. I think it’s because I don’t want to be rude and<\/em> I don’t want to make a spectacle of myself coming in late and being unprepared for whatever.<\/p>\n

I have a tendency to be really<\/em> early, like being a half hour early to pick my boys up or drop them off. I used to be so early dropping my boys off to school that it became common to drive “around the block” a couple miles to kill some time until the school actually opened. And when going to job interviews, I’d end up being an hour early, find the company where I was to interview, and then drive twenty minutes down the road and twenty minutes back to be a little early.<\/p>\n

The problem might have worsened when we moved to the Springfield area from the St. Louis area. In St. Louis, you might have to drive for forty-five minutes from one suburb to another for things and commute an hour. So I got used to that and built in some extra time, natch. But here in the Springfield area, you can go from our house outside the southwest corner of Springfield<\/a> to ABC Books<\/a>, all the way in the northwest corner of Springfield proper, in about twenty minutes. An hour’s drive will take you to another city (Joplin or Marshfield or Branson) past a lot of rural country. But I have tended to retain my sense that I need to leave an hour early to go downtown.<\/p>\n

I am working on it, though. Just yesterday, I knew I had to pick up my boys at 5:30 and that it would take fifteen or twenty minutes to get to their school, and although I wanted to leave at 4:45, I waited until 5:00. And then grew anxious because I was afraid I’d be late.<\/p>\n

So, nah, I’ll just give up on trying to be just on time. I mean, I know you’re supposed to get out of your comfort zone<\/em>, but I think I’ll do it in other ways than taking a chance that I might, possibly, but not likely, be late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrice Lewis links to a Guardian story “Beat the Clock: The Surprising Psychology Behind Being Perpetually Late“, and she (Ms. Lewis) asks: So what end of the spectrum do you hit? Are you early or late? And what’s your logic\/reasoning\/motive behind it? I am on the early side. I think it’s because I don’t want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34299,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25561\/revisions\/34299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}