The blog post's title says "The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge", but further into the article I think the actual challenge is made crystal clear: > I wanted to

The blog post's title says "The 24 Hour “Do Nothing” Challenge", but further into the article I think the actual challenge is made crystal clear: > I wanted to see if I had the willpower to cut off all stimulation for an extended period of time. That's quite a bit different than doing nothing. I think the idea of doing nothing, or even trying to cut off all stimulation is, using your term, repulsive, because it's just so unnatural, and nearly impossible. The darkness of a dark room itself is a kind of stimulation, as much as the absence of sound or social interaction might be. As natural humans sitting in the dark at night, we'd be totally engaged and on hight alert the instant that the familiar sounds of the night stopped, because that might signal danger. To the human brain, nearly everything has meaning, and often does so when there's no actual stimulus in the first place (for better or for worse).