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When children question adult relationship to time

My 8-year-old asked me why grown-ups are always in a hurry and I tried to explain but realized I actually do not know the answer.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Child curiosity exposes the arbitrary nature of adult temporal anxiety and reveals how much urgency is learned rather than necessary.

Ideas that help explain it
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