Time perception/keeping time - who’s tried what? Metronome?

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Def one of my biggest deficits is time perception. I get lost in details & a time warp far too often and it makes me unreasonably slow at my job at times.

I don’t particularly want to do something like take Dexedrine to speed along and would rather try out technological solutions for time keeping/time perception. (In addition to being stricter on diet and exercise again that I know help me move swifter - when I’m on track going for 7km runs 1-3x/wk I tend to move swifter in daily life - possibly due to lingering affects of increased dopamine etc.)

At one point several years ago when my time perception was about The Worst ever I wore a wrist watch with 5 alarms on it to remind me to do certain things daily. I could also set multiple alarms on my phone - but my hands are often too dirty to use a touch screen during work so that’s not a good solution. The alarm would go off and then just ring and ring and I know it because when I do set alarms for things that tends to happen; my hands are too dirty to want to touch or be able to use my phone screen.

Soo, I’ve been wondering if a metronome might be of assistance. I know they’re meant to keep rhythm - usually for musicians, but I recall also using some in high school gym class to keep time for doing sit-ups. I’m not SURE it a metronome would help me with time perception while working or not tbh - but I want to find out And I’m curious if anyone else has tried it?? Music sometimes helps to an extent, like sometimes I’ll notice that a song or two have passed - but more often than not it’s just pleasant background noise. Plus on MOST job sites we’re not allowed to have radios or headphones, but can often get away with Bluetooth headphones.

Annnyways, I’ve seen this product advertised and have been wondering if it might help give me a better sense of time passing while working. It’s a wearable metronome that can be silent/vibration only - and hidden. Might give me a sense of time perception And physically working to a rhythm vs getting caught up in some detail or another and spending more time on it than it’s with.

In an ideal world it’d be something like -click- *loading stroke left* -click- *loading stroke right* -click- *feather left* -click- *feather right* -click- *finish left* -click- *finish right* -click- *finish centre* and move on. 6 -clicks- consistently as I work my trowel on a wall/ceiling joint vs getting caught up on micro details no one else can see or cares about And that 95%+ of would be taken care of on the second coat and any last details by a painter.

Here’s the wearable metronome:



Hmmmm, I bet if I check the App Store I can download a free metronome to go -click- -click- -click- for me the next time I finish a room/house before I drop $129+ tax on this thing to have a wearable discreet one. I’m gonna look and try it before maybe buying this thing.

Curious if anyone else has tried using a metronome for time perception for repetitive work tasks? Or, any other device (low or high tech don’t care - simpler the better tbh) to help with time perception and ensuring you get work done in a timely manner? I’m open to any & all suggestions as I’m sure there are things I haven’t thought of or have never even heard of before.

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Listen to grindcore or gabber while you work.

A watch ...! , pay attention to it. If it has a chime function would be better , a lot a certain amount of time to whatever function or activity you are performing. Stick to your segments of time religiously. Then move onto the next , if you do not finish something assign another time segment to it , must pay attention to your watch and segments .
This method helped me alot growing up . It can force you to avoid distractions , unless you consider looking at your watch a distraction .

Hmm. It’s been so many years since I’ve worn a wrist watch I’ve literally forgotten if it might help me keep time by using it as simply as you describe. Maybe.

Don’t really care for wearing any jewelry almost ever and if I Need to know the time or set an alarm for something I just pull my phone out of my pocket.

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A clock with chimes on the quarter hours might help. When I'm watering my plants, I do a breathing meditation to time the soakings. When I'm making a sandwich, I know that I can chop an onion before the toast burns, etc.

I tried tracking my sense of time.
By half an hour, by an hour, by 6 hours, and by specific times (usually 5PM)

... Not that in order nor all at the same time.

Most at the time, it bothers me until I start ignoring it.
Then disregarding it altogether, defeating any purpose of attempting to track time.

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Lol ignoring it forever isn’t an option for me.

The thing with a wrist watch is it may be all too easy to not check it for a while and then just have it as a confirmation that I just wasted some time. If it had a chime that went off every minute or maybe 5 then that might be different - hard to ignore that another interval has passed. But that could also either get annoying or be tuned out. Hmm.

The thing with a metronome is that with a consistent real time pulse I’d Know that time was passing w/o having to glance at a watch And it might keep me physically moving along at a good set pace.

I’m gonna try it out with a wrist watch and maybe a downloadable metronome app and see if one, the other, or both work. Hmm, might even just do it at home in a “mock work,” scenario seeing as I’m not actually on a job site right now.

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Any recommendations of a wrist watch with an interval chime that can be set for every X minutes vs only on the hour?

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Many digital wristwatches have this feature.

All smartphones have this feature.