A Father and his daughter are
talking at home. The daughter is attending the Time
Management course at NILS.
Father (looking at a paper stuck at the corner of a mirror in the daughter's room): What is
this?
Daughter: A project slash home assignment.
Father: Slash?
Daughter (with hand gestures): Project / home assignment.
F (looking closely at the paper): Combing hair – 4 minutes, WhatsApp
Good Morning messages – 12 minutes, searching for notes – 5-6 minutes,
searching for clothes to wear – 11 minutes. What are these?
D: Those are the Invisible Time.
F: And I am sure it is as wonderful a concept as that Fallback Time.
D: Be as sarcastic as you want. But everybody has Invisible Time. You
have them too. Only you can’t see it.
F: Isn’t that the purpose of invisibility? Anyway, what is it about?
D (like explaining to a child): It is the time you spend for doing
things that you are not aware of.
F: Like?
D: Like combing hair. You know you need time to take bath and get
dressed. But combing hair comes in between and people often don’t think about
that while planning their actions. And they get delayed by just as many minutes
as they spend combing hair.
Or, take for example, the third one. I am always searching for notes and
papers. Now I am going to find out exactly how much time I lose while searching
for things every time I want to study. The same thing happens to casual
WhatsApp chats while studying or working.
We are never aware of how much time we lose by chatting or searching for
things, but these minutes pile up and accumulate to form a substantial amount
of time that is simply lost.
F: That is the Invisible Time?
D: Yes, that is the Invisible Time. And I am trying to make a list of
them.
F: I see. Does this talking with me also count as Invisible Time?
D: No, this goes under Wasted Time.
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