A Bit of Practice - Fixation of Chains of Events

A Bit of Practice: Fixation of Chains of Events

It seems to me that you are all a bit tired of theory. Let us temporarily set aside what we have been engaged in until now. We will continue developing the programming language a little later. Now I offer you a piece of practice. I believe this task will help you understand the essence of the problem. Acquire a weekly planner, notebook, or exercise book. Name this important document "The Life of a Remarkable Person" and begin the fixation of daily events. For a trial, make entries for 3-5 days. Events must be fixed according to the following rules:

1. Consider each day a separate beat of a long process. Please do not include sleep (and dreams) in the analysis. That is a separate operation.
2. It is best to make entries not once a day, but several times (4 times will be quite sufficient).
3. Note events with a degree of abstraction (for example, business meetings, romantic dates, conversations with the boss, etc., call them "contact" and add the suit of the relationship sphere). Let me remind you that we consider the zone of sympathies-antipathies, feelings, attachments, and love to be the HEARTS SUIT. Financial relationships, gifts, purchases, etc. – these are DIAMONDS. SPADES – these are volitional relationships, meaning orders, psychological pressure, relationships with the boss or subordinates, disputes with the mother-in-law, and educational work with disobedient children. CLUBS (trefoils) – these are work, career, daily life, trips to the dacha, etc.

So, let's begin the fixation of events:

Woke up; water procedures and going to the toilet (denote with the word "Habit" or "Routine"); contact with relatives (denote as "contact-spades", "contact-hearts", or "contact-diamonds"); having breakfast ("routine"); a relative provided some money or vice versa ("acquisition-diamonds" or "expense-diamonds"); going to work or university ("movement-clubs"); chatted on the way with a nice girl or guy ("contact-hearts"); had a spat with the conductor or road police ("contact-spades") and so on. Let the designations repeat throughout the day as much as needed – for example, with the boss "contact-spades", or with the courier "contact-clubs". Clearly and accurately designate all events of the day. If you work at a cash register and people constantly approach your window, it is not necessary to reflect every contact in the diary. You can summarize these events as performing work, i.e., "routine-clubs".

Try to complete this task. Since our life is very cyclical, you will soon find small, identical sequences of events that will repeat day after day or even within a single day. These are the minor patterns. These are precisely what we will need.

That's all; let's begin the practice. Yes! And try to minimize the number of terms you use to describe the Chains of Events. But your minimization should not harm the descriptiveness of the process. In the evening, after you perform your evening "routine-clubs" or "contact-hearts", do not be lazy; fill out the diary and go to sleep. And on the next day, begin a new Chain of Events. Later we will see that some events jump from one beat to another. But that is a different story. Now you will be learning the fixation of events.