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If you control that schedule, it could relax you because you don’t have to make prioritizing decisions in the moment. If other people control your schedule (as is true for many work environments, at least) then this level scheduling is most likely to be quite stressful.

Other people (generally) don’t control my schedule, so I do like like having blocks of time clearly marked out. But I’m much less fanatical: I just make my schedule the night before, and it’s generally a couple of 2-3 hour blocks with blank time inbetween. But it’s stress relieving for me to know, say, that my bills will be paid (or with autopay, supervised) at some point so that I can safely ignore the bills the rest of the time. Or to know that something bad isn’t going to happen because I went outside with a book for a few hours.