The tightly scheduled day doesn’t allow for the unexpected, it provides minimal flexibility and should something urgent arise, it requires you to make sacrifices to react.
All it takes is a delay in one activity for you to spend the rest of the day trying to catch up.
It relies on everything going to plan and often doesn’t allow for peace of mind.
Schedule padding is great because it allows those who can’t see the future to stay flexible and reactive.
Thomas Duggan 