Why am I always late?

我为何总是迟到?

CrowdScience

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2025-04-19

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CrowdScience listener Sid is running late, and he’s turning to science to find an excuse. He and his partner Steffi in Singapore have very different attitudes to timekeeping. They wonder if this is down to their different cultural upbringings, or if they just had very different brains to start with. Presenter Chhavi Sachdev puts her own time perception skills to the test to try to understand how subjective our sense of time can be. And we discover how the language we grow up speaking can influence the way we think about punctuality. Presenter: Chhavi Sachdev Producer: Emily Bird Editor: Cathy Edwards Production Co-ordinator: Ishmael Soriano Studio Manager: Jackie Margerum
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  • This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.

  • Oh, gosh, oh, dear, how many of these has there been?

  • Surprisingly, I've only missed two flights ever.

  • And that, to be honest with you, I'm going to say, wasn't my fault, obviously.

  • You're listening to Crowdscience from the BBC World Service.

  • But I am admittedly that guy that's the last person to get on the plane.

  • I'm Chavisaj Dev and this week's question comes from Sid in Singapore,

  • who is more often than not running late.

  • I wish I could say it was a scramble, but it's more that I just move with my pace.

  • It's never usually a procrastination as such.

  • It's always

  • because I am actually doing something or I am with someone and then losing track or a sense of time.

  • So this is personal.

  • It is very personal.

  • I mean, I want a campaign to prove that there's a reason why I am exceptionally bad at time.

  • There has to be some rationale.

  • Sid spent his childhood between London, UK and Colombo, Sri Lanka,

  • and his experience growing up between different cultures sparked his curiosity.

  • Something that's always played on my mind is how we in different areas of the world and within different cultures perceive time and how it affects us.

  • I know that certain places in the world it's seen in a very casual and lax way.