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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1139" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://theoutline.com/post/7425/everything-should-take-twenty-minutes" target="_blank"><strong>Everything should take 20 minutes</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>It’s the ideal amount of time for all tasks.</strong></p><p></p><p>Think about a task you wish to or must complete, and imagine how long it should take you. If you are a right-thinking person like myself, the answer is “20 minutes.” A 10-minute task is hardly a task at all, more of a minor interruption, and anything that takes 30 minutes invites the thought that you could have watched a half-hour episode of television instead. Twenty minutes is, objectively, the ideal amount of time — the Goldilocks number when it comes to doing things.</p><p></p><p>I realized this recently when I was once again running late to an event — only one train ride away — because I had assumed it would take me 20 minutes to get there. I was bewildered and then upset that it took 40. There were no facts or previous experiences or reasons behind this assumption, just the bone-deep certainty that it <em>should</em> take 20 minutes, because that is the correct time for everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1139, member: 1"] [URL='https://theoutline.com/post/7425/everything-should-take-twenty-minutes'][B]Everything should take 20 minutes[/B][/URL] [B]It’s the ideal amount of time for all tasks.[/B] Think about a task you wish to or must complete, and imagine how long it should take you. If you are a right-thinking person like myself, the answer is “20 minutes.” A 10-minute task is hardly a task at all, more of a minor interruption, and anything that takes 30 minutes invites the thought that you could have watched a half-hour episode of television instead. Twenty minutes is, objectively, the ideal amount of time — the Goldilocks number when it comes to doing things. I realized this recently when I was once again running late to an event — only one train ride away — because I had assumed it would take me 20 minutes to get there. I was bewildered and then upset that it took 40. There were no facts or previous experiences or reasons behind this assumption, just the bone-deep certainty that it [I]should[/I] take 20 minutes, because that is the correct time for everything. [/QUOTE]
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