Why you never seem to have enough time
One of the first biases I learned about is still one of my favourites; Parkinson's Law.
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion"
This is the reason why you left your assignments until the night before at university and it's also why that cupboard that you keep meaning to clean out has never been attended to.
In the absence of a deadline, things have no sense of finality and always get pushed behind more urgent tasks which DO have a deadline.
And in the presence of a deadline, tasks are left up until the boundary of lateness.
Here's something else I came across...
"One widely circulated survey claimed that the average social media consumer spends 116 minutes per day on these sites.
If correct, this is an amazing number given that this category of time did not exist twenty-five years ago.
Where did the time come from? I have no idea.
Time stretches to accommodate what people find interesting to do." ~ Laura Vanderkam
This effect feels similar to Parkinson's Law.
"Time stretches to accommodate what people find interesting to do"
You can see your leisure time as a sponge which can become squeezed more and more by compulsions, and for most people, their most compulsive activity is using their phone.
Studies show that our perception of time speeds up when using social media. So not only are you eating into your leisure time but you're actively making your life go faster too.
No matter how long I'm alive, I know for a fact that I don't want to look back and discover that I was speedrunning life at 1.5x for two hours every day.