Experiment: Flow States
Productivity, for me, has always been a struggle.
for reference:
| Drink | | Caffine Content |
|---|---|
| Bang | | 300mg |
| Monster | | 140mg |
| Red Bull | | 80mg |
| 1 cup (8 floz) of black tea | | 47mg |
| Pepsi | | 38mg |
| 1 cup (8 floz) of green tea | | 28mg |
| Sunkist | | 19mg |
| Dose | Result | Success? |
|---|---|---|
| Approx. 45mg | | Successfully induced state of focus. Wrote most of an 800 word essay in one day. | ✓ |
| 34mg | | Arguable success, wrote this entry and got a few hundred words out of a 1000 word paper. | ~ |
| 18mg | | 7 hours after previous test. Success. Finished 1000 word paper. dose is not necessarily correlated with success, as a later yet smaller dose produced more productivity. Had psych class in between doses, likely a factor. | ✓ |
| 0mg | | testing another method, went to library reading room to attempt mirroring behavior, as comparison to caffination. made some progress, but did not induce focus | x |
| 18mg | testing if previous 18mg dose was independent of 34mg earlier that day. low productivity. that dose was likely influenced by previous. | x |
| 30mg | ? |