Broken-Record Technique

Broken-Record Technique 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.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

Watch a master carpenter teach an apprentice. He does not lecture; he lets the boy hold the wrong end of the saw until the wood itself becomes the teacher.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. Tomorrow will provide the test. It always does.