So my mind has a lot of deep thoughts that may not be clear but is still a distraction none-the-less which is why I want to post them on the forum to get them off of my mind and it is my mission to improve the education system. Taking this into account, it would be important to think about when homework will improve someone's life and when it won't. I would say that homework should be enforced during elementary and middle school to build discipline for the areas of life that is worth pursuing but becomes more of a distraction if it causes misdirection when it comes to life purpose. I think that it becomes more of a distraction during high school because the mind becomes more mature and focuses more on spirituality, life purpose, etc. There needs to be a way to show this or for this to be tested like a survey or having a conversation with a student (I don't really know the methods or how this will work yet). Although I focused on these things in the past, I was probably resistant with doing the work for those things and I still am to some degree and so homework needed to be enforced during elementary and middle school in my life to learn discipline. I probably need to learn that with my homework now but I don't want it to be misdirected either with this new system even though I want to focus on it now. Having this kind of state of mind however feels less neurotic than the addiction to thought although addictions can feel pleasing so I need to introspect on what it feels like more. Homework is just a tool, there needs to be other methods for serious learning and that going through my school schedule reminds me of the stuff that was irrelevant or not learned. Maybe that method can change every year to maintain order with this schedule but to still have more flexibility when needed.   What is the fundamental purpose of homework? What makes this tool so common and overused? What are some alternatives? If it makes me feel guilty with doing the kind of work that I care about more, then it means I am doing it mechanistically and for the sake of doing it instead of doing so consciously. HealthyGamergg is right, it turns out that motivation is keeping a thought steady in your mind and I am more motivated to be doing this even though it was past midnight while I was creating the post and that the thought of posting this was more steady within my contemplative mind. I want to give him credit for his work on YouTube as a phychiatrist, he even talks about meditation, consciousness, and enlightenment. He gives really high quality information about work, motivation, etc, and it is very rare to find such information on the internet. Would it then be impossible to predict or control my motivations if I cannot predict or control a thought without thinking about it causing an infinite regress problem? Could I actually fix this through awareness by meditating? Homework should also not cause people to normalize isolation just because people are too "busy". There should also be a deeper connection with other people at school to actually a deeper connection outside of school. I am interested with inviting people over but homework, having to clean regularly, video games, and social media usually gets in the way which is why there needs to be better relationships within school to give me hope and motivation with doing the work required to have better relationships with people meaning that there cannot be such a short sliver of time for that and that there needs to be deeper questioning with the content and structure that is being taught and the beliefs and assumptions that is responsible for the content and structure of the curriculum. The structure is how you make the content better which is improved through systems thinking. This is very difficult to do because that skill falls in tier 2 at stage yellow in spiral dynamics. I would say that HealthyGamergg can be effective at contributing to that if he really wanted to based on where he is at within spiral dynamics and he is slowly opening the door with making room for me to develop systems thinking. My first step would be for me to get back on track with meditation so that I can have better concentration with whatever I want or need to work on. HealthyGamergg actually provides such a meditation and it seems to me that he is right that the meditation session is for the base level of consciousness. How do I find out what actually caused me to lose track of meditation? Was it boredom, lack of results, distraction? What is causing resistance with meditating when I first have to chance to do so and how do I focus on the thought of it to actually get motivated to do it? This contemplation session is creating a vision for me and I look forward to see where it takes me.