The Precious Present
by Spencer Johnson
Johnson's earliest short parable, from 1981: a boy searches his whole life for the precious present an old man described, and finds it in the present moment. Forty pages.
Read it if…
you want the original short version of the idea.
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Skip it if…
you have The Present; it is the same story expanded.
Try instead: The Sale →
Three things you will actually use
- The present is the present.
- Searching postpones.
- Be here.
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Our verdict
The original parable.
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