Liban was feeling sleepy for about three hours. He struggled with remaining awake, even though he slept about 8 hours the night before. He fought again and again and won: he first noted that he was getting sleepy and then he went out several times to wake himself up.
For days he was free while working from home. He was getting sleepy and then he was sleeping. This led him to stay awake late and thus lose his routine. He wanted to repeat that sleep pattern. He also learned how habits are persistent: not giving up and repeating to win
If, he wrote, behavior is governed by consequences, as behaviorists claim, then one must set up consequences, positive and negative, to govern behavior. Liban chose to employ such behavioral technology to govern his own behavior.
Why do you feel tired right after you wake up from sleep, after working only an hour? You need short break of relaxation. Some suggest about five minutes, still others suggest, if possible, 17 minutes for every 52 minutes of work. Research shows this being an ideal way to break.
Liban believes materials that he writes in his journal are not worthy of sharing with public . He despises his work. He believes this is so because sharing such materials makes him feel as if he is sharing useless materials. His feeling is telling him the truth: this is useless.
Liban then chose to adapt this nihilist approach: tell the whole world, in his imagination, that the materials that he is about to share is useless and he will prove this to be the case. Only materials that survives this null hypothesis will be shared with the world.
Liban felt great, and he used not to feel this great; he does not believe it is important to share with others what he feels; less important, happiness after all, to him, is trivial matter, not suitable for polite conversations. No need for investigations either
Investigations suggested taking notes of occurrences to solve actual problems. He now believes that sharing what he has learned after initially rejecting them is worthy of sharing. Liban has now proclaimed that his default approach to life and all else is nihilism or rejectionist
When Liban mentions that he will remain silent because he has nothing to share, intense excitement ensues, as if his system is telling him to maintain this thesis. Liban sees no reason as to why he will share this, because, to him, this is trivial matter: celebration of nihilism.
Some say this is the inductive way of thinking, statistics being an element of inductive reasoning. Liban now believes rejectionism of all except that which persists, having persistent power, is a cause of excitement, provided one is open to that which persists.
Liban woke up this morning tired and he did not exercise. He spent a lot of time that he had browsing about news in Somalia. ‘ I did not know how time has passed’ he said. ‘ the laws of the nature, must have hooked and then sustained me’ he said.
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