Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

If You’re Still Operating Like a Day Is Only 24 Hours Long, You’re Cheating Yourself!

8 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube monologue by Richmond Dinh arguing that people schedule tasks according to the time they allot themselves — so giving a task a full 24 hours causes procrastination and inefficiency. Using a vivid anecdote (making it to the bathroom just in time), Dinh recommends setting goals/timeframes about half as long as initially estimated to increase focus and complete more work.

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If you're operating like the day is 24 hours long, then you're cheating yourself because people always commit and do the tasks they do in the time frame they are giving themselves. So for example, now you've probably experienced this before where you are, for lack of a better word, busting to go to the bathroom. Isn't it interesting how you always make it on time? Whether you have five minutes, you always make it within those five minutes. Whether you have 10 minutes, you make it just on time in those 10 minutes. And so if you give yourself 24 hours to do a task that that could potentially take you 12 hours, then you're cheating yourself. So set a goal or an outcome or timeframe that's half the time than you originally think that it's going to take you and you will get more done because most of the time you can get things done in a faster time frame. It's just because you set yourself way too long to do it.