💭 Today I’ll still try to do as many ITP exercises as I can.

🖥️ 10:10 Received some work from my boss. And decided to do it very slowly while doing ITP exercises.

Time Quantity Accuracy
11:00 7/10 70.0%
11:25 15/20 75.0%
12:00 22/30 73.3%
14:25 29/40 72.5%
16:10 34/50 68.0%
16:50 41/60 68.3%
17:05 49/70 70.0%
17:20 55/80 58.8%
17:30 62/90 68.9%
17:35 69/100 69.0%

😪 Feel very sleepy until 13:30

15:45 Wrote a thinking log about yesterday’s kendo match.

Four Thousand Weeks

Notes:

The invention of the clock is solely to blame for all our time-related troubles today. (And I certainly won’t be arguing for a return to the lifestyle of medieval peasants.) But a threshold had been crossed. Before, time was just the medium in which life unfolded, the stuff that life was made of. Afterwards, once ‘time’ and ‘life’ had been separated in most people’s minds, time became a thing that you used – and it’s this shift that serves as the precondition for all the uniquely modern ways in which we struggle with time today.

Once time is a resource to be used, you start to feel pressure, whether from external forces or from yourself, to use it well, and to berate yourself when you feel you’ve wasted it.

And it becomes a lot more intuitive to project your thoughts about your life into an imagined future, leaving you anxiously wondering if things will unfold as you want them to. Soon, your sense of self-worth gets completely bound up with how you’re using time: it stops being merely the water in which you swim and turns into something you feel you need to dominate or control, if you’re to avoid feeling guilty, panicked or overwhelmed.

The trouble with attempting to master your time, it turns out, is that time ends up mastering you.

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