Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video explaining the concept of ‘time elasticity’: a real-life example (a broken water heater) shows seven hours of one woman’s week were consumed by urgent repairs and cleanup. The speaker argues time ‘stretches’ to accommodate what we choose to prioritize, and effective time management means treating priorities as urgent (like the broken water heater).
One of the women whose time log I studied. She goes out for a Wednesday night for something. She comes home to find that her water heater has broken and there is now water all over her basement. So she's dealing with the immediate aftermath at night. Next day, she's got plumbers coming in. Day after that, professional cleaning crew dealing with the ruined carpet. All this is being recorded on her time log. Winds up taking seven hours of her week. Seven hours. That's like finding an extra hour in the day. But I'm sure if you had asked her at the start of the week, could you find seven hours to mentor seven worthy people, I'm sure she would have said what most of us would have said, which is no. And what this shows us is that time is highly elastic. We cannot make more time, but time will stretch to accommodate what we choose to put into it. And so the key to time management is treating our priorities as the equivalent of that broken water heater.
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