Volume 2 · The Discipline of Hours · Essay 141

Jacuzzi Approach

A method is a promise: do these steps and something improves. Jacuzzi 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.

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.

The kirana shop opens at eight sharp, festival or fever. Ask the owner his secret and he will point at the shutter, not at his willpower. Systems outlast moods.

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.