Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 135
Idle Talk
There are ideas that shout. Idle Talk is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.
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.
A pressure cooker teaches more about time than any seminar: sealed, steady heat does in twenty minutes what an open pot cannot do in an hour. Attention is the lid.
Time is the one currency the Reserve Bank does not print more of. Keep the name. Use the pause it gives you. That is the entire homework.