Don't torture your innie
Have you seen that show Severance? No? Doesn't matter, it's mid, but it does have a very interesting central metaphor:
In the show, people invented a new technology to separate / sever the memories of yourself into to different personas, so that one can go and do your work and not have any recall of how your life outside of work looks and 'you', the person who can enjoy all the leisure time can not remember what happens at work. So it's a neoliberal pipedream ha, but there's something deeper about some sort of Parfitian notion of how we relate to the nature of identity... in the sense that we can have different selves in ourselves and the different selves can have special continious qualites.
Alright this is getting messy: what I'm saying is: I'm writing this post with the 'most dangerous writing app' or squibbler that deletes all my words if I don't continue typing on a Monday moring at 7:30AM in order to hit the Foreverhaven deadline, where post-Inkhaven you have to write 500 days a week by midnight California time (because that's the center of the world in these Americanocentric days), and the THING IS: There is a steady and continious sense of my Monday morning personality: The Hauke of Monday morning is a special case of your morning self, who just had a weekend. There's even more continuity between your morning selves. This might sound schizo, but here me out. This is actually in line with IFS, or internal family systems which is all the rage, these days, and I don't really make any claims of how good a modality it is, but it's not really a new claim that we have different personalities, drives, etc in ourselves. And also in neuroscience, there's a bunch of evidence that we do certain things subconsciously (cf. split brain patients).
Well anyway you might say: what do I care? Split brain patient really? I haven't had a hemispheriectomy (sp?)? Why should this apply to me?
Well, there are different selves within you too, they're just not as binary and pronounced, like your morning self, or your evening self, or your Monday morning, or your post-gym self, who's bathing in endorphins, or the pre-gym self, or the gym self, who has lift of weights, or your making love self, whatever, you get the point.
Well, now this has implications for how to conduct your life:
For instance: don't create too strict a routine that tortures your monday morning self that under pressure has to write 500 words every monday morning and not have any time of. Don't torture that innie. All work and no play makes your monday morning self a dull boy. So sometimes you give your morning self a day off. It's called weekends and they've culturally evolved for a reason. If you don't take time off, then your selves might rebel and you'll start procrastinating or burnout, if you push any of your selves too hard.