event timetable and clock timetable

 I've been reading this article which talks about the difference in 'event time' and 'clock time' as different approaches to dealing with events and activities in one's life. People who live by clock time need to be enforced with external measures of time, it argues, whereas people who live by event time often have greater control over their circumstances. As with most things, nobody is strictly of one type, and there's a great degree of gradation between how one person sees the world under different circumstances at various points in life. It's interesting, specially because the argument it makes is rather counterintuitive. One would imagine that people who feel more comfortable with clock-time-living are the ones who have more control over their lives, and are generally more disciplined, but the authors claim that the opposite might be true generally. The imposition of clock time exists because some human beings in some tasks cannot enforce a strict perception of 'passed time', so they need an external intervention between tasks and during a task, to inform them how much 'work' (or 'time', if we are to take them as proxies of each other) has passed. It's about personal choices and behavior, but it's also about the differing nature of all the varieties of tasks we undertake, and how we need to be adaptable, and change our approach depending on the circumstances.

I want to write a longer essay on it, from a more professional perspective for the website, so I should chew on these thoughts more.