No, to be clear, what I interpreted of your post was that you are “prescribing” how much time should be spent. “Predicting” how much time you will spend on something is not particularly helpful in achieving any output results, especially if it’s largely just repeating what you did before. Your response does help in that it clarifies what you have done. It’s just not what I thought you had done. In my experience, a “prescription”—a plan for what you must do to achieve some valuable outcome—is of more use in self-experimentation than a prediction. If, on the other hand, you have a lifestyle that is chaotic and in flux, where estimating time required by novel tasks is a challenge, then yes, a prediction is indeed useful. Thanks for getting back and sorry that my response is a fortnight later.
No, to be clear, what I interpreted of your post was that you are “prescribing” how much time should be spent. “Predicting” how much time you will spend on something is not particularly helpful in achieving any output results, especially if it’s largely just repeating what you did before. Your response does help in that it clarifies what you have done. It’s just not what I thought you had done. In my experience, a “prescription”—a plan for what you must do to achieve some valuable outcome—is of more use in self-experimentation than a prediction. If, on the other hand, you have a lifestyle that is chaotic and in flux, where estimating time required by novel tasks is a challenge, then yes, a prediction is indeed useful. Thanks for getting back and sorry that my response is a fortnight later.