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Time Blindness Challenge

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Description

Time blindness is a felt phenomenon, so this MicroSim lets you measure your own felt time. Round 1: click when you believe thirty seconds have passed, while drifting shapes gently distract. Round 2: race through a click-the-numbers task, then estimate how long it took. Round 3: predict how long a repeat will take, then do it. The results panel keeps a running felt-versus-actual ledger with signed errors — most people discover that engaging tasks compress felt time dramatically, which is Chapter 3's 5:52-shower example in miniature.

The visible clock toggle is the fix made experiential: replay round 2 with the clock on and the estimation error collapses. Externalized time beats felt time — the exact principle behind the timers and departure alarms of Chapter 10. This is a demonstration, not a diagnostic test.

Lesson Plan

  1. Baseline (4 min): All three rounds, no clock. Note each error's direction.
  2. Discuss (3 min): Whose errors were largest during the engaging round? Connect to "five more minutes" that was forty.
  3. Fix (3 min): Replay with the visible clock. Compare errors.
  4. Transfer (2 min): Each learner names one recurring task to run an estimation log on this week (guess, time it, compare).

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