Holiday

 I am looking forward to the long weekend. With little scheduled after dinner tomorrow through the end of Memorial Day, I can move back to the daily tick-tocking of bedtime-waking-walking-showering, on the soothing rhythm of 10pm-6am.

Repetitive comfortable routine is one of the hallmarks of Introverted Sensing (Si). In my type, ESI / ISFj (MBTI: ISFP), this information element is in the position of Demonstrative, meaning that it feels like one is playing around when one exercises it. But I have started to learn to "play around" a lot more than I used to. There is something "lazy" or "easygoing" about Si. Routine removes some of the burden of making decisions, and it has been shown scientifically that making decisions drains the brain of energy. But it's smart to be strategically lazy by reducing the need for decisions around the difficult moments of transitioning to sleep and then back to waking. One does not overthrow a life of creativity and innovation by these routines; on the contrary one has more energy available during the rest of the day, more resilience and more flexibility.

Our very biological lives are rhythmic at the core; our hearts must beat steadily to do their job. Why wouldn't the same principle apply to our daily sleeping followed by waking followed by sleeping again?

Everyone has Si in their psyche but not everyone is strong in it. Some are so strong they would become mere creatures of habit, others struggle to see its effect in their lives. We help each other. The ones strong in Si are weak in idea-generation (Ne), and vice versa.

I'm not going to stop posting this weekend but I am going to hold my writing agenda loosely. Writing is work and this is a holiday weekend.

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