Why Preparation Beats Discipline: A Lesson That Rewrote My Life.

Zane Dickens the Instigator
Microcosm
Published in
2 min readMar 7, 2024

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Writing double time with both hands. Thanks, MidJourney.

It’s school rush hour, cars are zipping in and zipping out.

Preschoolers are bouncing off the walls, skipping on the paving stones and crying at the door. Clinging to parents. Forgetting shoes and lunchboxes.

And my car won’t start.
The battery’s dead. Again.
My kids are in their car…

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Zane Dickens the Instigator
Microcosm

Top Writer. Chief Instigator at Microcosm. Creator of the 💯 Story Challenge. Level Up: from Hobbyist to Authorpreneur at zane.substack.com/about