The last ten minutes of class feel like an hour because you’re counting them. Counting is the slow part.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Attention is what stretches time. Watching the clock gives your mind nothing else to do, so every unit of waiting gets fully registered, which is how boredom manufactures itself. The ten minutes are the same ten minutes, and the counting is what adds the weight.
Give those minutes something to land on this week. Reread your notes, write tomorrow’s list, plan the first thing you will do after practice. Not to be productive, only to stop measuring. Time you are not counting goes somewhere by itself.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which part of your day drags because you watch the clock?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- Growing your hair out is a year-long course in ignoring opinions. Everyone has one about your in-between stage.
- Bad news at 11 p.m. lands twice as hard as bad news at noon. When you say it matters as much as what you say.
- Good point guards know when to push the pace and when to slow it down. Speed is a choice, not a personality.
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