Having had a lot of "slow" time (much like the 24 hours described in the post) through my countryside childhood, I don't find it all that difficult to "do nothi

Having had a lot of "slow" time (much like the 24 hours described in the post) through my countryside childhood, I don't find it all that difficult to "do nothing" for stints like this. If I were to replicate the same experiment, I suspect that my issue would not be lack of willpower to abstain from "junk food" stimulation, but rather dealing with the nagging voice in the back of my head constantly reminding me that I'm fettering away the precious little time I have truly to myself — weekends and holidays are the only time when I have the privilege of pouring my full self into the things that I want to work on, rather than the lions' share going toward my job. I can't see "nothing" time becoming a part of my schedule without at least a four-day workweek, and it'd probably work best if I were to shift from full-time to part-time or move to contracting/consulting where I set my own hours. I've had a lot of luck with achieving some of the clarity of mind the writer mentions by simply habitually writing down ideas and preferring working to make these ideas reality in my spare time over scrolling through reddit and the like. Doing that has freed up mental bandwidth to a degree far greater than I ever thought it could.