Where it comes from
In Creative Evolution (1907) Henri Bergson writes: “If I want to mix a glass of sugar and water, I must, willy-nilly, wait until the sugar melts.” That wait isn’t clock time, he says: “it is something lived.”
How to play it
Drop the sugar in. Then try to hurry it.
What it teaches (try it first)
Clock time can be counted and sped through. Lived time can’t. Trust, grief and a team finding its feet all dissolve at their own rate.
Ask yourself. What are you trying to hurry that has to dissolve in its own time?
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