Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 180

Parallel Approach

Parallel Approach is the kind of technique that looks too simple to respect and too useful to ignore.

Try it for a fortnight before judging it. Most methods die in the court of first impressions, which is the least competent court there is.

It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.

A pressure cooker teaches more about time than any seminar: sealed, steady heat does in twenty minutes what an open pot cannot do in an hour. Attention is the lid.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.