Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 96

Extinction of Experience

You may not know the name Extinction of Experience, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.

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.

Every January, the gym fills; by March, the regulars have the place to themselves again. The calendar changed nothing. The people who stayed simply stopped asking the calendar for permission.

Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Do not memorise it. Notice it. Noticing is the senior discipline.