How to Waste Time
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The Atlantic
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🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Baca. Yes, yes, Hannah. I have a story I want to tell you and I don't know if it's excellent or terrible. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm sure it will be excellent, Hannah. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's hear it. |
| 0:18.6 | Okay, so this weekend I was hanging out with a five-year-old actually four and three quarters because you know how little kids are extremely precise about their age and we were planning out all the things that we were going to do that day. And what I did was I sat down |
| 0:36.6 | with this kid and I made a schedule. |
| 0:41.1 | With the child who's four and three quarters? |
| 0:45.7 | Yes, it was like a pictorial schedule and I thought I was doing something incredibly fun. |
| 0:49.7 | I was like, number one, we're going to go to the castle playground number two we're |
| 0:55.2 | gonna have a food adventure number three we're gonna have a throwing adventure and I |
| 0:59.8 | taught the kid how to write everything down and say how long it was going to take and |
| 1:05.0 | then I taught the kid how to cross things out. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh my God you were training this child on how to make a to-do list. |
| 1:13.0 | Yes. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay. |
| 1:15.0 | And only at the end of it did I think, |
| 1:16.0 | oh my God, I have to ask Becca if I just did a terrible thing. |
| 1:20.0 | Did the kid enjoy it? |
| 1:22.0 | Did he appreciate your efforts in mapping out his day for him like that? |
| 1:26.0 | Well, I think the kid was like a natural bundle of chaos. |
| 1:30.0 | Like, I was trying to sort of like organize and rein it in and be like look we're going to do this for 20 minutes and this for 20 minutes and this for 20 minutes. |
| 1:39.0 | Manage the otherwise chaotic life of a yeah yeah five-year-old child. |
| 1:43.6 | Exactly. |
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