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Chapter 1: What is the diabolical norm in our culture?
Something that's been normalized in our culture that I think is diabolical is the lack of punctuality. People being late. And there's a very simple fix for this that I think everyone can tap into. Be on time. Well, but traffic. 15 minutes early. Leave 15 minutes early. Early bird gets the worm. Be on time. But I'm totally projecting. Cause I'm never on time. I am the guy who's always late.
Chapter 2: Why is being on time important?
I'm late one minute. I'm late five minutes. I'm late 10 minutes. I'm late an hour. Um, hi, I'm the problem. It's me. Why should you be on time? It's a good question because if we've normalized being late and you can pull up whenever you want to, then what is the incentive to be on time? It's about respect. It's about respecting other people's time and your own.
Chapter 3: How can punctuality show respect?
Because I've said it time and time again, time is the only thing we don't get back. You don't get it back, right? 2016, summer 2016 came and went, okay? Plain dirty, not clean, okay? It's gone. 2016 was 20 years ago. Feel old yet? Yeah, thought so. When you're on time, you show that you respect the plans that were created and the time that was set. You show that it actually matters to you.
Chapter 4: What are common excuses for being late?
You don't have to spend five to 10 minutes explaining why you were late. Like people will be like, well, I took the wrong exit and then I didn't know it was here. No, you did. You did. You're lying. Because I do that. I lie about that. I'll be like, well, yeah, it was so hard to get here. No, it wasn't. You have Apple Maps and Google Maps. two of the best navigational softwares ever.
Chapter 5: How can you improve your punctuality?
How is it hard for you to get here? You're a cap, you're a capper and it's fine. It's fine. Just say I was late, you know, or, or you can avoid all of that and just be on time. How do you tap in to being on time is a question you got to answer for yourself. I don't know. For me, like, I have to add probably like 20 minutes to everything.
Even if a drive is 20 minutes, I have to like mentally add 20 more minutes because I'm always like putzing around before I exit the crib. I'm never like early. I'm never ready right when I should leave. I'm always like, oh, I should grab this or like, oh, what if I get cold?
Chapter 6: What are the consequences of being late?
It's better to be sitting in the car, listening to Sabrina Carpenter and then turn your car on when it's time to go than to like be running into the room and being like, you know, like a donkey from Shrek. And it's a good habit to get into real talk because there are things you can't be late for in life. What?
Minion Dave, what? Können wir. Platt machen, ganz machen, neu machen, Mut machen, gut machen, besser machen?
Chapter 7: Why do job interviews require punctuality?
Können wir.
Chapter 8: What was the experience of pre-ordering at GameStop?
Und Karriere machen?
Na klar, können wir. Was du aus deiner Zukunft auch machst. Wir können alles, was kommt. Das Handwerk.
Um, yeah, job interviews. You can't be late for that. You gotta be on time. You gotta be, like, early. Hashtag pre-order.
Like a GameStop pre-order, you got to be early. Do y'all remember doing pre-orders at GameStop? That was like the worst experience ever. Maybe I'm alone on this, but I would get the FIFA every year because I'm a big football fan. And I was playing up until like FIFA 18. But I would get the FIFA every year and they would always try to sell me every single credit card. And I was like 11.
And my dad's like, I want to buy the game for my son. And they'd be like, well, yes, you could buy the game, but you could save 1.3% if you get the GameBucks card. And then you could get the beta early before the pre-release. It's like, what are you talking about? I just want the FIFA with Messi on the cover. Truly. Be on time. Respect yourself. Get there early.
Getting there early is also a great opportunity to scope things out if you're going to a new place. I love getting places early because you can just walk around and you kind of calm your nerves. I feel like when you're always rushing somewhere, it's hard to kind of catch your breath and you're always in this state of like, I don't know what's going on.
You know those commercials where they'll be like, it's like for an exotic location. They'll be like on a beach and it's like two people sitting on beach chairs and like a little umbrella. That's what happens when you're early. You just get to be a D1 chiller. Because you're early. You've done the work. You've already got there. Now, do you need to be early to everything? No.
Like, if you want to be, you know, late to getting groceries for the week from HEB, that's fine. Or Mariano's. I don't know where you live. Or Jewel Osco or Kroger. I'm going to list every single grocery store. If you want to be late to that, that's fine. But if something is time sensitive, get on that. Get on that. Another thing about being on time, it doesn't just mean events.
It means opportunities. Yes, it means opportunities. It means when you meet somebody and they say, we should hang out or we should grab coffee, you follow up and you're on time with that. And you're like, yeah, we should. Hey, what about this day? Hey, are you free on Tuesday? Yes, I am free on Tuesday. Perfect. Let's go grab coffee.
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