Time is an instrument. It can be sped up, slowed down, and played forward and backward. To play time well is to have others dance to your beat.
“They are unable to allow precisely for lead time, lag time, incubation time, time to build up a heed of steam, time to forget, time to get bored, time to stop talking, and so on. They do not have the feeling for matching the duration of different acts to come into fruition against their respective times of need. They fail to lay the basis for the resolution of conflicts before their actual onset. As a result, they only struggle with the fortitude of facing crisis after crisis. They never glide with the arc of de-existing them.”
Page 163 The Craft of Power, G. H. Siu.
