When you buckle down to study for a test, finish a homework assignment, or slog your way through a textbook chapter, you're in Robot Mode. You're doing the work.
During this period, he spent almost all his time reading, including a variety of books as literature, philosophy, history, psychology, as well as a large amount of western modern novels.
After university, however, he abandoned his plan to join the priesthood and spent the next years in his father's country home following a rigorous course of independent study to prepare for a career as a poet.