Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 75
Direct-Then-Drill Approach
A method is a promise: do these steps and something improves. Direct-Then-Drill Approach keeps its promise if you keep yours.
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.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
Think of the student the night before the board exam, and the same student the morning after results. One believes time is an enemy; the other discovers it was only a mirror.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Keep it like a good key: accessible, unlabelled, and used often.