This is a self-management experiment. Living by myself and reporting to no boss makes it easy to fall into a mindless routine. I have not been living up my potential as an ‘untethered creative person’. My lack of discipline has allowed me to drift into a hazy groove. I need some accountability.
Here are my “STANDARDS” for the next week. Each day, I aim to meet all of them, and will keep track of my success or failure.
- Eat each meal within 1 hour of 9:30, 1:30, & 8:00
- One 3-hour creative block
- One 1-hour book reading block
They are pretty ‘low’ standards. The question is, “Even with low standards, am I disciplined enough to stick with a plan for a whole week?” — If yes, next week it may evolve into a slightly more demanding form.
I will post the first week’s result here, next Sunday night. By then, there should be twenty-one check marks on there. Do you think I will get a perfect score?
Great idea, Jakob. I’m gonna try this (sans meals, which I don’t care about), too.
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melanyouth reblogged this from buyhercandy and added:
“rather than telling you what to do, it merely requires that you do something” - this sums up the rather astounding and...
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engi reblogged this from nostrich and added:
This is a very handy experiment. Being an unemployed college student, it is indeed very easy for me to fall into a...
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buyhercandy reblogged this from nostrich and added:
I should implement something like this for my thesis.
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nostrich reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
really like Jake’s STANDARDS experiment — save for the annoying capitalisation. Like Jake, I’m relatively untethered...
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nubes answered:
More or less my kind of favourite routine. Kudos, Sir!
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derrekwayne answered:
do it dude.
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todayi answered:
ha! i did this the other night … but mine is way more embarrassing
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ferio answered:
good idea & good luck
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slyology answered:
Yes you will. These standards can be met.
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slomoyall reblogged this from jakelodwick
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kingdomcomethemovie answered:
good luck!
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robertmacarthur answered:
no. i think you’ll fuck up the eating schedule
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goosebumpmusic answered:
for one week sure. but will you keep it up?
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steampoweredmedia answered:
Depends on your definition of “creative”
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sebastianwaters answered:
reminds me of this: sebastianwaters.com/pos…
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missingmuse answered:
The biggest accomplishment here would be continuing the experiment after a non-perfect score. Good luck, Jake.
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lifeasamusical answered:
Yes
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chrisnow answered:
You won’t. Regardless, it’s a flawed system. What is your unit of measure for a creative block? How creative is disciplined creativity?
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judyprays answered:
flamebright.com/PTPages…
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adamgotterer answered:
Eating at time intervals is something society created. You should eat when you are hungry. People hunted and are when they could. Evolution.
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oats answered:
I think you can do anything you measure.
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carolinemartin answered:
I think the hardest bit will be eating regularly. It’s so easy to put off eating because you know you’ll have to do it eventually.
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charliepinto reblogged this from jakelodwick
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irisl answered:
have you seen “if i” by demetri martin? he also tried a life point system.
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walkonthewildeside reblogged this from superamit and added:
I can’t remember the last time I sat down for an hour to read a book. Think I’ll start today.
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nicholaspacheco answered:
yes
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heynic answered:
Seems very much like something that can be pulled off if your truly serious about it. So ya i think you can get a perfect score.
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lystra reblogged this from ronenreblogs
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ltwp answered:
As somebody settling in to the summer ‘blahs,’ this is a good plan. I hope you stick with your schedule better than I did.
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vanyavanya reblogged this from ronenreblogs and added:
Vanya needs to try something like this…
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midnightbreeze answered:
I think that you will.
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superamit reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
Great idea, Jakob. I’m gonna try this (sans meals, which...don’t care about), too.
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ponbop answered:
ben franklin did that for his 13 virtues: bit.ly/19GSzp. If he can do it, you can too (though i think his was a lifelong pursuit)
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nic-rad answered:
I don’t know you, but I think this is fantastic. Good luck.
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ronenreblogs reblogged this from jakelodwick and added:
tricky part is being your own employee....public accountability of this experiment.
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henryv answered:
to be is to do.
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deplorableword answered:
Possibly, how will you reward yourself after clearing the first week?
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bendelaney answered:
Yeah. I think you will. And I think this is a really good idea. I may do something similar (with the addition of a curfew).
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brokenbottleboy answered:
I think you’ll manage it for a week but beyond that it becomes challenging.
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kayfabe answered:
I think you’ll meet them. But why the goal of hour long meals? Do you usually eat slow?
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