Thread by @curious500bc

0509, Liban slept around 10pm last night and woke up around 0400. He felt too tired to wake up and start his day even though he was not feeling sleepy. It appears to him that was aversive stimuli presented to stop him from starting his day; with tiredness, let him do his work.

Liban was not using known processes of work, such as sitting mind- mapping, oral mind-mapping, oral mind-mapping while walking or standing ; he was not using his strengths to overcome deficits, such as disposition to distraction. He may even use his distraction: mind-map a lot.

0527, Another principle that prevents him from doing his work is doing easy things, such as browsing the net or watching comedy show. He will do a lot of easy things; the strategy of doing easy things is strategy used by habits which still a lot of liban’s time.

Libin responded to discussion question about Ethiopia; he also browsed Ethiopia news because he thinks a lot of things are happening in there; instead of preparing for coffee,
and breakfast to start his day, he immersed himself there; he reported that he does not have schedule.

0718, Liban ate breakfast and listened to VOA Somali Program on Somalia’s elections; he did not learn much save most people demand hard evidence in politics; some circumstantial evidence may be available and that may be enough. One may rely more of that.

0810, Liban does not remember doing much of work this hour; he researched how much it will cost him to visit Washington DC; he learned that it will cost him $20 per night hotel, about $200 ticket and another $200 for food and transportation. About $600 for seven days.

0829, Liban loves to pursue things for their on sake and not for the sake of anything else; this allows him to feel great about himself and it seems to satisfy a fundamental need he has, to engage in an intrinsically motivated activities; he desires goal oriented activities.

0832, He needs both. Let him engage in both. One goal oriented activity is becoming financially independent.
Let him research this, write working paper on it and then reflect his action as he implements the working paper.

Liban was away for about 90 minutes; he worked on urgent tasks; then he was lost browsing the net; he will pay the fine. 1015

Libin spent the last 30 minutes doing some important tasks: communication with family members. He has not done anything else; he does not like doing them anyway but does them out of duty. 1120

12:37, Liban spent the last 80 minutes watching a comedy videos; he was feeling discomfort and he wanted to escape from it, hence his comic shows watching. He will pay the fine.

1312, So Libin chose to spend the next 52 minutes sitting and working. If he gets distracted, then he will do five push ups right away; if he focuses, then he will praise himself.

1433, Libin edited self development and political analysis materials; he wishes to do this on daily basis.

Liban will take one hour break. 1500.

Liban woke up at 1020 today after sleeping 3pm; he then spent next hour, as always listening to news and analysis: Amhara police commissioner, curfew in MN and so on. He was simply doing whatever that was easy to do. He reports now writing is hard for him, causing muscle tension.