Scribe’s Legerdemain

May 27, Wednesday 2020 — Thomas Lekhanya

Let’s see. I just switched off the music that was playing. Deprive the sensory distractions yo!

Before typing this piece, I was handwriting my to do list.

I usually set ten minutes in my phone timer to do it.

I recently changed it to fifteen minutes though.

Why?

Because, it’s annoying spending time planning my day on flat tree carcasses and then failing to complete my missions day after day…month after month.

So I tried something new with the additional extra five minutes.

I look at my missions for the day and consciously reflect on what it means to me and why I must it’s in my best interest do it.

I cancelled the word “must” because there’s nothing my brain hates more than any encroachments on my sense of freedom.

Psychologists have discovered three main variables affecting people’s motivation.

Autonomy — What level of freedom you perceive having doing the task.

Value — What gains you perceive in doing the task.

Competence — What competence you have to do the task.

See why avoided the word ‘must’?

Anyway, this is another experiment I’m testing.

Another is the following experiment on writing…

See, I’ve developed a for singing out random rhyming sentences every once in a while…

…And that’s where I stop. This writing piece expanded beyond 1,000 words. It ate more editing time than usual and I’ll polish it up tomorrow…I’m excited for it.

But why didn’t you edit it during the day? you say.

That’s because I got carried away in this new “experiment on writing” I’ll reveal soon!

Until next time