However, after his successes, Jay's life fell apart and he later found himself struggling to support his 2 daughters and his son. It was then that Jay decided to turn his life around. He implemented structure in his life, and tried to impress the value of structure on his three kids. All three kids decided they were going to go out and sieze their futures.
Jay's first daughter found structure in her art studies, and followed in her father's footsteps to become a highly-regarded painter.
Jay's second daughter dedicated herself to music and, through structuring her time carefully, wrote several songs in the same style as Jay's album, becoming a highly successful singer songwriter.
However, his son struggled. He simply couldn't motivate himself to live a life full of structure. After many years, he decided he was going to ride his father's writing success and write a sequel to Jay's novel. Jay wished his son the best of luck, and promised he would check in on him regularly to see his progress.
6 months passed, and Jay visited his son's studio to see how he was getting on with the book. However, to his dismay, instead of a neat setup, Jay found papers spread over lots of tables all over the room. When he asked his son what was going on, his son told him,
"I can't find force myself to be structured all the time, so I devised this complicated table arrangement to make up for the ways that I struggle to be structured".
As Jay looked around, he started to understand – one table was for all of the tense scenes, one for all the romantic scenes, one for the bits that weren't quite finished yet, and so on.
"That's genius!" exclaimed Jay. "How did you come up with this?".
"Oh it was easy really, I thought of it when I came across this advice in a programming textbook"
"Jay's son is semi-structured, which necessitates a complex table structure when writing sequel."
