One who cannot read the day needs a flawless plan, and does not have one, and never will.
One who can read the day still needs a plan, opens it perhaps once a block,
and spends the remaining hours looking at the bar.

I spent a year and a half being the first and filing it under rigour.
The second is not less rigorous.
It has only moved the rigour to the one place it was ever going to be any use,
which is Wednesday, at the rack, deciding.

The Book of the Scholar — Return 42:5