Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 303
Wildly Important Goal
You may not know the name Wildly Important Goal, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
Consider the farmer. He does not argue with the season; he arranges his work inside it. The city man does the opposite — he argues with every Monday and is surprised every Friday.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. You will meet this idea again this week, wearing different clothes. Now you will recognise it.