Volume 7 · The Long Afternoon · Essay 146
IWIK Technique
IWIK Technique is less an idea and more a recipe. Read it once, then cook.
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.
Think of the grandfather who plants a mango tree he will never sit under. Ask him why, and he will look at you as if the question were the strange thing.
In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. The idea has done its job if, the next time it happens to you, you smile before you react.