Take You’re Time with it.

I loaned a chess book to a friend. When I saw the friend a week later, they asked, “I’ve got the book with me, do you want it back?” The book had not been fully read, at that point.

My thoughts went to, “You need to take your time with reading that book to get the most from it. Keep it for as long as you need it, to get the best, from it.”

When I read the book, I was able to speed read the first couple of chapters, as my ability was beyond chapter 1 to whatever point to I got to, when I needed to take a bit of time to take in, the lesson being taught. So I was surprised at being asked if I wanted it back already, after just one week. In my mind, the book would be on loan, for at least a couple of months.

My response to the question was something like, “Keep the book for as long as you need it, to get the most from it. As you get further into the book, you’re going to need to take your time with it, to get the most from it. Yes, I do want the book back at some point. But, it’s yours, until you’ve worked your way through it, properly.”

For me, the book was just sitting on the side, not being used. I do want it back, to take it’s place in my very small library, but only when it is finished with, by my friend.

It lead me to the thought of, can we sometimes be in too much of a hurry? To try to rush through things, because we think that there is a time restraint, that actually doesn’t exist?

Do we sometimes, just need to slow down a bit, with the …. , that we are working through/with, in order to get the Best or the Most, from it?